{"id":15321,"date":"2014-07-08T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/north-korea-sends-cheerleaders-to-asian-games-in\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T05:40:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:40:34","slug":"north-korea-sends-cheerleaders-to-asian-games-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/north-korea-sends-cheerleaders-to-asian-games-in\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Sends Cheerleaders to Asian Games in South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea says it will send cheerleaders to South Korea for the first time in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>They will accompany athletes taking part in the Asian Games in September at the South Korean city of Incheon.<\/p>\n<p>The cheerleaders and athletes are being sent to &#8220;improve relationships&#8221; between the North and South, according to a statement reported by KCNA.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea last sent cheerleaders in 2005 for the Asian Athletics Championships, also held in Incheon.<\/p>\n<p>That contingent was made up of 101 cheerleaders, including Ms Ri Sol-ju who went on to marry North Korea&#8217;s leader Kim Jong-un, according to Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The North has so far sent cheerleaders to South Korea only three times since the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea said on Monday that its decision to send cheerleaders again would &#8220;create an atmosphere&#8221; of reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our sincere decision this time will melt the frozen North-South relations with the heat of national reconciliation while displaying the entire Korean people&#8217;s will of unification in and outside (of the peninsula),&#8221; said the statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6351 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nk-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6352 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nkk.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea says it will send cheerleaders to South Korea for the first time in nearly a decade. They will accompany athletes taking part in the Asian Games in September at the South Korean city of Incheon. The cheerleaders and athletes are being sent to &#8220;improve relationships&#8221; between the North and South, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000053019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-15321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000053019,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15321.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15321.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15321.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15321.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15321.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15321.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000053019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15321"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=15321"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=15321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}