{"id":6534,"date":"2017-09-14T03:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T01:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/14\/quite-backwards-chinese-tourists-gawk-at-impoverished-north-koreans\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T03:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T01:48:38","slug":"quite-backwards-chinese-tourists-gawk-at-impoverished-north-koreans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6534","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Quite backwards&#039;: Chinese tourists gawk at impoverished North Koreans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of tourists flock to a stretch of the country\u2019s 880-mile border with North Korea each month to point binoculars at their poor neighbours\u201cThis is a must-see,\u201d tour guide Yu Quanqing tells his passengers as he whisks them towards a riverside gateway to the hidden kingdom of Kim Jong-un. Related: How can the world respond to North Korea, short of military action? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/14\/quite-backwards-chinese-tourists-gawk-at-impoverished-north-koreans\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Quite backwards&#039;: Chinese tourists gawk at impoverished North Koreans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of tourists flock to a stretch of the country\u2019s 880-mile border with North Korea each month to point binoculars at their poor neighbours\u201cThis is a must-see,\u201d tour guide Yu Quanqing tells his passengers as he whisks them towards a riverside gateway to the hidden kingdom of Kim Jong-un. Related: [&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-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","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=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}