{"id":1237,"date":"2013-04-09T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/09\/north-korea-an-inside-look\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:14:10","slug":"north-korea-an-inside-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/north-korea-an-inside-look\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: An inside look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s recent provocations have put the world on edge.<\/p>\n<p>The situation, spurred by nation\u2019s 30-year-old dictator, seems to worsen daily as Japan, South Korea and the U.S. have positioned both military and missiles to defend and retaliate against a potential strike.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year ago, Becky Duckett, Furman\u2019s Program Coordinator in Asian Studies, participated in an independent educator\u2019s tour of North Korea. On Tuesday afternoon, her reflections on this trip gave a packed McEachern Lecture Hall the opportunity to put the current turmoil surrounding the embattled country in a unique perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The complete story is posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.furman.edu\/north-korea-an-inside-look.html\">Edge, Furman&#8217;s Digital Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s recent provocations have put the world on edge. The situation, spurred by nation\u2019s 30-year-old dictator, seems to worsen daily as Japan, South Korea and the U.S. have positioned both military and missiles to defend and retaliate against a potential strike.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year ago, Becky Duckett, Furman\u2019s Program Coordinator in Asian Studies, participated in an independent educator\u2019s tour of North Korea. On Tuesday afternoon, her reflections on this trip gave a packed McEachern Lecture Hall the opportunity to put the current turmoil surrounding the embattled country in a unique perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}