{"id":135,"date":"2013-08-30T06:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T06:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chaletline.co.uk\/?p=135"},"modified":"2013-08-30T06:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T06:45:34","slug":"no-swiss-ski-lift-for-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/no-swiss-ski-lift-for-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"No Swiss Ski Lift for North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s bad news for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-23756462\">BBC has reported<\/a> that he will no longer be able to buy ski lifts from Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The country has been trying to develop a ski resort at Masik, partly as a response to South Korea hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/pyeongchang-2018-winter-olympics\" class=\"broken_link\">Winter Olympics in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Switzerland has now ruled that a &#8216;ski lift&#8217; counts as a luxury export and is therefore prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was worth over \u20ac5 million to the Swiss company\u00a0Bartholet Maschinenbau.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland&#8217;s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs labelled the resort a &#8220;prestigious propaganda project for the regime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chaletline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nk3-e1376593370103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"korea\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.chaletline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nk3-e1376593370103.jpg\" width=\"496\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article\u00a0By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107961348339974741522\/about?rel=author\">Iain Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/no-swiss-ski-lift-for-north-korea\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nk3-e1376593370103-190x125.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nk3-e1376593370103-190x125.jpg<\/a><p>It&#8217;s bad news for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, as the BBC has reported that he will no longer be able to buy ski lifts from Switzerland. The country has been trying to develop a ski resort at Masik, partly &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/no-swiss-ski-lift-for-north-korea\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}