{"id":253774,"date":"2026-07-17T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253774"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:26:04","slug":"nigeria-north-korea-pledge-to-strengthen-bilateral-relations-as-ambassador-designate-pays-courtesy-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/nigeria-north-korea-pledge-to-strengthen-bilateral-relations-as-ambassador-designate-pays-courtesy-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA, NORTH KOREA PLEDGE TO STRENGTHEN BILATERAL RELATIONS AS AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE PAYS COURTESY &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Press-Release-No-2026-149.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Press Release No 2026 149<br\/><\/a>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253776\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-30-300x202.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-30-300x202.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-30-1024x689.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-30-768x517.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-30.jpeg 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-253775\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-40-300x185.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-40-300x185.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-40-1024x631.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-40-768x474.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-40.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mfa-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253779,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253774\/revisions\/253779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}