{"id":138512,"date":"2017-12-12T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138512"},"modified":"2017-12-12T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T09:16:10","slug":"president-duterte-interested-in-making-n-korea-a-dialogue-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/12\/president-duterte-interested-in-making-n-korea-a-dialogue-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"President Duterte interested in making N. Korea a dialogue partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite worldwide criticisms against North Korea and even after President Rodrigo Duterte himself tagged its supreme leader Kim Jong-un a \u201cchubby maniac\u201d, the Philippine president seemed to have shifted views as he is now showing interest in making North Korea a dialogue partner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the arrival ceremony of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), President Duterte thanked North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho and said that they are very pleased to have him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He added that they are always invited in the Philippines and that they \u201cwould be a good dialogue partner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duterte and Ri also had a small conversation at the closing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, Foreign Minister Ri congratulated members of ASEAN in celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08 \/ 09 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite worldwide criticisms against North Korea and even after President Rodrigo Duterte himself tagged its supreme leader Kim Jong-un a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}