{"id":29537,"date":"2026-04-19T05:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29537"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:30:13","slug":"north-korea-fires-several-ballistic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/04\/north-korea-fires-several-ballistic-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires several ballistic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Korea and Japan say North Korea has fired several ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>International media report that on Sunday (April 19), North Korea launched multiple missiles from near the city of Sinpo on its eastern shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>The launches are the latest in a series of tests as North Korea steps up efforts to strengthen its military capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has conducted four ballistic missile tests this month and seven so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Korea says it held an emergency security meeting following the launches.<\/p>\n<p>The tests come as China and the United States prepare for a mid-May summit, where U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to discuss North Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International media report that on Sunday (April 19), North Korea launched multiple missiles from near the city of Sinpo on its eastern shoreline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194],"tags":[703,1461,1794,1795],"class_list":["post-29537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","tag-south-korea","tag-missiles","tag-north-korea","tag-ballistic-missiles"],"views":8,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29538,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29537\/revisions\/29538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}