{"id":162160,"date":"2018-04-30T05:21:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=162160"},"modified":"2018-04-30T05:21:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T09:21:27","slug":"kim-jong-un-is-dutertes-new-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/30\/kim-jong-un-is-dutertes-new-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un is Duterte\u2019s new idol\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting to how the inter-Korean summit turned out, President Rodrigo R. Duterte expressed his new admiration for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as the latter showed his willingness to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Kim) became my idol now. For all of the time, he was pictured to be the bad boy of the community,\u201d the President said upon arriving in Davao from Singapore, where he\u00a0attended the 32nd ASEAN Leaders\u2019 Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>After the historic meeting of Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who tackled bilateral relations, peace agreement, and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the two leaders vowed to end their countries&#8217; longstanding war.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte even said that such scenario made Kim \u201cthe man of the hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that to me, the man of the hour would be Kim Jong-Un,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It can be recalled that Duterte previously lambasted Kim, calling him \u201ccrazy\u201d for conducting missile tests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 04\/ 30 \/18<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting to how the inter-Korean summit turned out, President Rodrigo R. Duterte expressed his new admiration for North Korean leader &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-162160","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\/162160","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=162160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162160\/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=162160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}