{"id":471,"date":"2010-11-24T08:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T08:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2012-01-10T03:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T03:56:25","slug":"south-korean-island-shelled-by-north-korean-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"South Korean island shelled by North Korean artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/north-south-korea-war.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-473\" title=\"north south korea war\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/north-south-korea-war-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/north-south-korea-war-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/north-south-korea-war-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a> Dozens of homes have been destroyed on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, after North Korea fired artillery at it. Reports say 14 South Korean soldiers have been injured and the military is now on its highest non-wartime alert.<\/p>\n<p>As many as hundreds of shells were fired at the island and into the sea near the western border,\u00a0\u00a0 prompting Seoul to return fire.<a href=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/north-south-korea-smoke-rises.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-472\" title=\"Smoke rises from South Korean Yeonpyeong Island after being hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/north-south-korea-smoke-rises.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Korea has deployed fighter jets to the west coast of the island and the government has called an emergency meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses claim some residents on the island have been evacuated to bunkers and others have fled by fishing boat, but the shelling has now stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of homes have been destroyed on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, after North Korea fired artillery at it. Reports say 14 South Korean soldiers have been injured and the military is now on its highest non-wartime alert. As many as hundreds of shells were fired at the island and into the sea near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[65,64],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-world-news","tag-after-north-korea","tag-south-korean-island-of-yeonpyeong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}