{"id":105359,"date":"2020-04-14T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/north-korea-fires-barrage-of-missiles-from-ground-and-air"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:43:50","slug":"north-korea-fires-barrage-of-missiles-from-ground-and-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/north-korea-fires-barrage-of-missiles-from-ground-and-air","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires barrage of missiles from ground and air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korea-fires-barrage-of-missiles-from-ground-and-air.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 A barrage of North Korean missiles fired from both the ground and fighter jets splashed down on the waters off the country\u2019s east coast on Tuesday, South Korea\u2019s military said, a show of force on the eve of a key state anniversary in the North and parliamentary elections in the rival South.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back launches were the latest in a series of weapons tests that North Korea has conducted in recent weeks amid stalled nuclear talks and outside worries about a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/nbcmontana.com\/news\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/nbcmontana.com\/news\/coronavirus\" class=\"\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean troops based in the eastern coastal city of Munchon first launched several projectiles \u2014 presumed to be cruise missiles \u2014 on Tuesday morning, South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 A barrage of North Korean missiles fired from both the ground and fighter jets splashed down on the waters off the country\u2019s east coast on Tuesday, South Korea\u2019s military said, a show of force on the eve of a key state anniversary in the North and parliamentary elections in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}