{"id":43151,"date":"2025-02-17T19:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=43151"},"modified":"2025-02-17T19:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:02:59","slug":"north-korean-leader-causes-massive-explosion-in-the-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/north-korean-leader-causes-massive-explosion-in-the-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Leader Causes Massive Explosion in the Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">North Korea&#8217;s state media reported that the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong Un, triggered a massive explosion during a groundbreaking ceremony for a construction project in the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Footage showed Kim delivering a speech in Pyongyang on Sunday, surrounded by crowds, before turning a key to ignite a series of detonations that sent huge clouds of dust and smoke into the air.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Sky News<\/em>, the project aims to construct 10,000 apartments in its first phase as part of a five-year plan to build 50,000 new residential units. In his speech, Kim stated:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Hwasong will soon become famous not only as a cradle of a happy and modern life for our people but also as a land of history, telling new miraculous stories of our invincible socialist Korea.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Hwasong area has already seen the construction of several new residential buildings in recent years. Kim pledged to continue the <em>&#8220;sacred struggle&#8221;<\/em> for prosperity and security, according to North Korea\u2019s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea&#8217;s state media reported that the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong Un, triggered a massive explosion during a groundbreaking ceremony for a construction project in the capital. Footage showed Kim delivering a speech in Pyongyang on Sunday, surrounded by crowds, before turning a key to ignite a series of detonations that sent huge clouds of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43152,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151\/revisions\/43152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}