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NorK Orders Diplomats Children Home
Worried about possible threats to regime stability from North Korean children educated abroad, Pyongyang has ordered its diplomats and state trading company officials stationed overseas to send their children back to the North, an expert on the secretive regime says. Kansai University Prof. Lee Young Hwa said the order was the first of its kind passed under the Norths young leader Kim Jong Un, according to information he received from a North Korean trading official in China. The order, with a deadline set for the end of September, allows only one child per household to stay with each official abroad.Earlier this week, South Korean and other media reported that the teenage daughter of a top public security official in Pyongyang had defected to the South via a third country. The reports said the girl, who was studying at a university in Beijing and was identified only by her surname Han, was now undergoing screening in Seoul by intelligence authorities. The case drew attention as a defection by a member of North Koreas privileged elite is rare. Posted by: Pappy 2013-09-20 |
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