{"id":90140,"date":"2025-08-26T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90140"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:06:43","slug":"low-birth-rates-shrink-south-koreas-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/low-birth-rates-shrink-south-koreas-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Low birth rates shrink South Korea&#8217;s military"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k3nauksocYckuMDIv8K\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nSouth Korea has an increasingly urgent problem: Its military is shrinking because of low birth rates. A new report has warned that the country is short tens of thousands of troops, casting doubt on defense readiness.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has an increasingly urgent problem: Its military is shrinking because of low birth rates. A new report has warned that the country is short tens of thousands of troops, casting doubt on defense readiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[633,892],"class_list":["post-90140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-military","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90142,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90140\/revisions\/90142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}