{"id":28824,"date":"2012-04-12T01:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T05:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28824"},"modified":"2012-04-12T01:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T05:49:50","slug":"north-koreas-rocket-launch-trails-south-koreas-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/12\/north-koreas-rocket-launch-trails-south-koreas-election\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s Rocket Launch Trails South Korea&#8217;s Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v1011ffa5e096345cca542ea554e44d1ec558d914&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v1011ffa5e096345cca542ea554e44d1ec558d914&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>South Korea is having a parliamentary election today, but what&#8217;s back in the headline is North Korea. 29-year-old North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un commanded ahead of the South Korean voting of the fueling of a rocket that will put up a satellite. This is also in coincidence to the 100th birthday of North Korean family dynasty&#8217;s first leader, Kim Il-Sung.North Korea agreed to not pursue any nuclear related developments just a few months ago in exchange for continued foreign aids like food supplies. Countries in agreement with it previously clearly do not see this satellite launch as a peaceful event like it has claimed. The challenging party in today&#8217;s South Korean election is viewed as more liberal and pro-North Korea while the current ruling party is viewed as more conservative and anti-North Korea. The challenging coalition criticized the ruling bodies of failing to deliver the 7% growth it promised. South Korean benchmark stock index fell 6% in the past year and its economy growth dropped from 4.3% to 3.2%.Stay tuned for more news and updates, I&#8217;m Julia Sun for the Financial News Network.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/12\/1_1jw60ls5_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/12\/1_1jw60ls5_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea is having a parliamentary election today, but what&#8217;s back in the headline is North Korea. 29-year-old North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un commanded ahead of the South Korean voting of the fueling of a rocket that will put up a satellite. This is also in coincidence to the 100th birthday of North Korean family &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/12\/north-koreas-rocket-launch-trails-south-koreas-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;North Korea&#8217;s Rocket Launch Trails South Korea&#8217;s Election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}