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| North Korean defector Thae Yong-ho: 'sick and tired of regime' |
| 2016-08-19 |
| Kum Thae was a typical teenager. He went to a school in Acton, west London, used Facebook and WhatsApp, and enjoyed basketball. But after taking his A-levels (double maths, computer science) this summer something odd happened. He vanished. “We tried his phone. It was blocked. He disappeared from Facebook and social media. We were very worried,” said his friend Louis Prior, 19. The mystery was solved this week when it emerged that Kum’s father, Thae Yong-ho, a high-ranking diplomat and minister at the North Korean embassy in London, had defected. He had slipped out from the embassy’s suburban semi-detached house in Ealing, taking his family with him. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 Or the kids stay home. I doubt keeping the mother-in-law home would work well. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-08-19 11:01 |
| #3 How many NK diplomat families are going to be allowed to stay overseas now? Expect to see a whole bunch recalled. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-08-19 07:55 |
| #2 Sort of wonder if the movie 1-2-3 comes to play. The Russian says,"If I defect they will kill my wife , my mother in law, my brother in law, etc. Ok I'll do it." |
| Posted by: Pliny Glons2836 2016-08-19 05:31 |
| #1 Phok dis! Come quickly, we go big PX. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-19 04:50 |