{"id":52940,"date":"2024-03-14T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=52940"},"modified":"2024-03-14T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:46:08","slug":"n-korean-leader-unveils-and-drives-new-battle-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=52940","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean leader unveils and &#8216;drives&#8217; new battle tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea leader Kim Jong Un drove a &#8220;new-type main battle tank&#8221; while overseeing military training exercises, state media said Thursday, as Seoul and Washington wrap joint drills to improve deterrence.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing a black leather jacket, Kim saluted ranks of camouflage-uniformed troops, and watched live-fire &#8220;training march&#8221; exercises from a field command post, flanked by top generals, images published by state media showed.<\/p>\n<p>After he reviewed the tank crews, Kim &#8220;mounted a new-type main battle tank, seized the control lever and drove the tank himself&#8221;, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The KCNA report comes as Seoul and Washington hold the final day of their annual Freedom Shield exercises &#8212; involving missile interception drills and air assault, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear-armed North has long condemned joint US-South Korea military drills, calling them rehearsals for an invasion. It has carried out weapons tests in the past as a response to previous joint exercises of this nature.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/178631\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea leader Kim Jong Un drove a &#8220;new-type main battle tank&#8221; while overseeing military training exercises, state media said Thursday, as Seoul and Washington wrap joint drills to improve deterrence. Wearing a black leather jacket, Kim saluted ranks of camouflage-uniformed troops, and watched live-fire &#8220;training march&#8221; exercises from a field command post, flanked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52943,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940\/revisions\/52943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}