{"id":59030,"date":"2018-09-19T02:51:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T00:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/19\/ashamed-south-koreans-chilled-by-kim-jong-uns-cuddles\/"},"modified":"2018-09-19T02:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T00:51:43","slug":"ashamed-south-koreans-chilled-by-kim-jong-uns-cuddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=59030","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Ashamed&#039;: South Koreans chilled by Kim Jong-un&#039;s cuddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government of Moon Jae-in faces backlash for trying to soften citizens\u2019 impression of North Korean dictatorWhen President Moon Jae-in of South Korea embraced Kim Jong-un with a broad smile on an airport tarmac in Pyongyang, a crowd of North Koreans released a deafening cheer. But in Seoul, Choi Hyo-joo winced at the display of affection, troubled that the ruler of a brutal regime was treated so warmly.\u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing \u2013 Kim Jong-un is a dictator who threatened the world to bring them to the negotiating table,\u201d Choi said. \u201cIt drives me crazy. We can talk to him without undermining our values.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/19\/ashamed-south-koreans-chilled-by-kim-jong-uns-cuddles\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Ashamed&#039;: South Koreans chilled by Kim Jong-un&#039;s cuddles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government of Moon Jae-in faces backlash for trying to soften citizens\u2019 impression of North Korean dictatorWhen President Moon Jae-in of South Korea embraced Kim Jong-un with a broad smile on an airport tarmac in Pyongyang, a crowd of North Koreans released a deafening cheer. But in Seoul, Choi Hyo-joo winced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}