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Senior North Korean Diplomat Defected to South
[AnNahar] A senior North Korean...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... diplomat who was acting ambassador to Kuwait has defected to the South with his family, reports said Monday.
About 30,000 North Koreans have fled repression and poverty under the communist regime and settled in the capitalist South, mostly by first secretly crossing over the mostly non-existent border with China. Defections by bigwigs are rare, although Ryu's arrival came just two months after the North's former acting ambassador to Italia Jo Song Gil sought asylum from Seoul. "I decided to defect because I wanted to offer my child a better future," the Maeil Business newspaper cited Ryu as saying. He became temporary acting ambassador in September 2017 after Kuwait expelled envoy So Chang Sik following the Gulf nation's adoption of a UN resolution over Pyongyang's weapons programmes. According to reports, Ryu is the son-in-law of Jon Il Chun, the former head of Office 39, which manages the secret funds of the North Korean leadership. Tae Yong-ho, another high-profile defector who fled his post as North Korea's deputy ambassador to Britannia in 2016 and was elected a South Korean opposition MP last year, described Ryu as part of Pyongyang's "core elite". But he added: "No matter how privileged your life is in North Korea, your mind changes when you go abroad and draw comparisons." The North has tightened border security as part of its defences against the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)  ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men..., and the number of arrivals to the South plummeted last year. But Tae said leader Kim PudgeJong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... "will not be able to stop North Koreans who long for freedom from going to South Korea forever". Inter-Korean relations have been in a deep freeze following the collapse of a summit in Hanoi between Kim and former US president Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... in 2019 over what the nuclear-armed North would be willing to give up in exchange for a loosening of sanctions. Related: North Korea: 2021-01-24 China Joe To Keep Wray On As FBI Director North Korea: 2020-12-09 Trial results show AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine 70% effective North Korea: 2020-12-08 North Korean Hackers Target Virus Vaccine Makers as IBM Warns of Cyber Attack on Supply Chain Posted by: trailing wife 2021-01-26 |
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