{"id":147838,"date":"2018-01-21T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147838"},"modified":"2018-01-21T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T03:21:09","slug":"s-koreans-burn-kims-photo-as-n-korean-band-leader-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/21\/s-koreans-burn-kims-photo-as-n-korean-band-leader-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Koreans burn Kim&#8217;s photo as N. Korean band leader passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_147841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147841\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Kim_Jong-Un_Photorealistic-Sketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147841\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Kim_Jong-Un_Photorealistic-Sketch.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of conservative activists have attempted to burn a large photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the head of the North's hugely popular girl band passed by them at a Seoul railway station. (Photo By User P388388 on Wikimedia Commons - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Kim_Jong-Un_Photorealistic-Sketch.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Kim_Jong-Un_Photorealistic-Sketch-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Kim_Jong-Un_Photorealistic-Sketch-768x929.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of conservative activists have attempted to burn a large photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the head of the North&#8217;s hugely popular girl band passed by them at a Seoul railway station. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=37757238\">Photo By User P388388 on Wikimedia Commons &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of \u2014 Dozens of conservative activists have attempted to burn a large photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the head of the North&#8217;s hugely popular girl band passed by them at a Seoul railway station.<\/p>\n<p>About 150 to 200 activists used a blowtorch to burn Kim&#8217;s photo and a North Korean flag before police used fire extinguishers to put out the fire Monday. Some lower parts of the photo burned.<\/p>\n<p>The activists were rallying as the North&#8217;s delegation led by Hyon Song Wol, the head of the Moranbong Band, arrived back at the Seoul railway station after a visit to an eastern city to look at potential venues for performances during next month&#8217;s Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Hyon&#8217;s arrival triggered media frenzy in South Korea, with TV cameras following her every move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of \u2014 Dozens of conservative activists have attempted to burn a large photo of North Korean leader &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":147841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[44185,5923,1509,44186,2222],"class_list":["post-147838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-conservative-activists","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-photo","tag-south-korea","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147838","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=147838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}