{"id":23232,"date":"2010-12-02T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/inside_north_korea_business_as_usual\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T18:45:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:45:18","slug":"inside_north_korea_business_as_usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23232","title":{"rendered":"Inside North Korea, \u201d\u02dcBusiness as Usual\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While North Korea\u2019s state-run media continued to rage over the military exercises being held off the North\u2019s coastline, saying the four days of drills that ended Wednesday afternoon had brought the Korean Peninsula to \u201cthe brink of war,\u201d\u009d much of daily life in the secretive North appeared remarkably normal, or at least what passes for normal.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts from the North reaching Seoul suggested that residents of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, had been calmly discussing last week\u2019s artillery duel with South Korea, foreigners living in the city were worrying about an escalation in tensions with the South and the nation\u2019s leader was celebrated for his legendary contributions to \u201cthe brilliant tradition of Korean dancing art.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/02\/world\/asia\/02north.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While North Korea\u2019s state-run media continued to rage over the military exercises being held off the North\u2019s coastline, saying the four days of drills that ended Wednesday afternoon had brought the Korean Peninsula to \u201cthe brink of war,\u201d\u009d much of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23232\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,201,149,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-economy","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}