{"id":314264,"date":"2026-01-31T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/japan-and-south-korea-leaders-play-ping-pong-to-boost-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:00:06","slug":"japan-and-south-korea-leaders-play-ping-pong-to-boost-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/japan-and-south-korea-leaders-play-ping-pong-to-boost-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan and South Korea leaders play ping pong to boost ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/NcL4R5kqvcg\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Japan and South Korea leaders play ping pong to boost ties\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NcL4R5kqvcg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi played a game of ping pong with his South Korean counterpart Ahn Gyu-back on Friday after a bilateral meeting to strengthen cooperation between the two countries. #cnn #news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi played a game of ping pong with his South Korean counterpart Ahn Gyu-back on Friday after a bilateral meeting to strengthen cooperation between the two countries. #cnn #news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[128873,129934,129006],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-314264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-defense","tag-japanese","tag-minister"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Japan and South Korea leaders play ping pong to boost ties | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Japan and South Korea leaders play ping pong to boost ties for free, here on News ISC. 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