{"id":109534,"date":"2026-05-12T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/109534\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:02:08","slug":"south-korea-cautious-on-blaming-iran-for-ship-strike-ahead-of-us-china-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/109534\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea cautious on blaming Iran for ship strike ahead of US-China summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observers believe the government is biding its time and waiting to deliver a verdict until after a highly anticipated <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3353199\/trump-heads-china-musk-cook-and-top-ceos-xi-talks?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US-China summit<\/a> later this week that some suggest could influence the trajectory of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran war<\/a>.It was also likely aware that \u201conce it assigns blame to Iran, it could face greater pressure from Washington to join the Maritime Freedom Construct or other US-led maritime initiatives\u201d, said Doo Jin-ho, a senior security researcher at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy, referring to on-again, off-again efforts <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3352291\/cargo-ship-near-strait-hormuz-reports-being-attacked-iran-makes-new-peace-proposal?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to secure shipping<\/a> in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">\u201cSeoul hopes the dust will settle on the incident with the passing of time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observers believe the government is biding its time and waiting to deliver a verdict until after a highly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37708,383,262,38,37706,34533,34,46,37707,37704,772,20497,4738,106,101,11155,392,37705,30169,986],"class_list":{"0":"post-109534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-ahn-gyu-back","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-doo-jin-ho","13":"tag-hmm-namu","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","16":"tag-korea-research-institute-for-national-strategy","17":"tag-namu","18":"tag-pete-hegseth","19":"tag-seoul","20":"tag-ship","21":"tag-south-korea","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","23":"tag-summit","24":"tag-trump","25":"tag-us-china-summit","26":"tag-xi","27":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116559855114990801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}