{"id":9209,"date":"2025-12-14T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/no-weddings-no-funerals-in-north-korea-so-kim-jong-un-can-party\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:14:16","slug":"no-weddings-no-funerals-in-north-korea-so-kim-jong-un-can-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/no-weddings-no-funerals-in-north-korea-so-kim-jong-un-can-party\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;No weddings, no funerals in North Korea so Kim Jong-un can party&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/4f7a019c-0972-11e9-9441-005056bff430\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/2016-05-06_0921_in_the_world_press.jpeg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>South Korea&#8217;s Chosun Ilbo reports that Pyongyang has &#8220;press-ganged the North Korean population into sprucing up the country&#8221; for this weekend&#8217;s party congress. The pressures to meet national targets for impossible deadlines have, it says, only aggravated huge problems. In US politics, Trump could choose a Democrat or an Independent as a running mate, reports the Wall Street Journal. And we look at a newly-recognised condition: Irritable Male Syndrome. Bah, humbug!<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20160605-international-press-korea-kim-jong-un-pyongyang-congress-regime-trump-nominee-men-grumpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Chosun Ilbo reports that Pyongyang has &#8220;press-ganged the North Korean population into sprucing up the country&#8221; for this weekend&#8217;s party&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}