{"id":1450,"date":"2015-03-13T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2015-03-13T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:43:09","slug":"north-korea-test-fires-7-surface-to-air-missiles-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/north-korea-test-fires-7-surface-to-air-missiles-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea test fires 7 surface-to-air missiles: South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The South Korean Defense Ministry says the North has fired seven surface-to-air missiles into the sea off its east coast after Seoul and Washington wrapped up the first round of their annual joint war games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the early Thursday test was supervised by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe see this as another show of force by the North related to the exercises,\u201d the South Korean spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move by Pyongyang comes after its southern neighbor launched its eight-week long annual joint Foal Eagle military exercises with the United States\u00a0on March 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foal Eagle involves air, ground\u00a0and naval field drills, with some 200,000 Korean and 3,700 US troops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Korea and the US kicked off their second round of joint drills, called Key Resolve, on Friday. It is expected to end on April 24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The annual exercises usually increase tensions between the two neighbors, which remain technically at war after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in protest against the drills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pyongyang has denounced the maneuvers as a practice for invasion, calling for them to be called off to avoid military tensions between South and North Korea and improve bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Seoul and Washington say the exercises are for defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US has close to 30,000 troops permanently stationed in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SZH\/MKA\/HMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Korean Defense Ministry says the North has fired seven surface-to-air missiles into the sea off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,1],"tags":[6,5,31,96,95,7],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-news","tag-defense","tag-military","tag-missile","tag-north-korea","tag-south-korea","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NK-Military-Parade.jpg?fit=610%2C352&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-no","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}