{"id":35920,"date":"2026-01-14T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35920"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:00:44","slug":"seouls-tie-hopes-pipe-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35920","title":{"rendered":"Seoul&#8217;s tie hopes &#8216;pipe dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&#8217;s powerful sister on Tuesday dismissed hopes for improved relations with Seoul as a &#8220;pipe dream&#8221;, and demanded an apology over an alleged drone incursion from the South.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as Seoul&#8217;s various hope-filled wild dreams called &#8216;repair of DPRK-ROK relations&#8217; are concerned, they all can never come true,&#8221; Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, using the acronyms for the official names of both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang said over the weekend that it shot down a drone near the North Korean city of Kaesong in early January after it crossed from the South Korean border county of Ganghwa.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul denied the claim, saying the drone shown in photos released by Pyongyang was not a model its military operates.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered a joint military-police probe into the drone case, saying any civilian involvement would be &#8220;a serious crime that threatens peace on the Korean Peninsula&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Yo Jong said the North sees the incident as a grave provocation.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&#8217;s powerful sister on Tuesday dismissed hopes for improved relations with Seoul as a &#8220;pipe dream&#8221;, and demanded an apology over an alleged drone incursion from the South. &#8220;As far as Seoul&#8217;s various hope-filled wild dreams called &#8216;repair of DPRK-ROK relations&#8217; are concerned, they all can never come true,&#8221; Kim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}