North Korean high-profile defector fled 'slavery'
North Korean high-profile defector fled 'slavery'
One of the most high-profile defectors to leave suddenly North Korea says he left due to growing disillusionment subsequent to vibrancy sedated the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.
Thae Yong-ho, a former deputy envoy to London, defected to the South in August.
Speaking to a South Korean parliamentary committee, he said North Koreans were living in conditions amounting to slavery.
After his defection North Korea called him "human scum".
The North's divulge media said the envoy had been accused of leaking secrets, embezzlement and child rape.
My friend the North Korean defector
South Korea announced in August that Mr Thae had arrived taking into account his intimates. Since later he has been undergoing intensive interrogation from the extremity facilities aimed at weeding out spies.
According to politician Lee Cheol-Woo, who met Mr Thae, he had become increasingly familiar of the "gruesome realities" of simulation in North Korea.
"There are many ranking North Korean officials disturb from depression anew concerns they will have to live following slaves for a long epoch if the North's teenage leader rules the country for decades," Mr Lee quoted him as proverb.
Mr Thae is as well as reported to have said he learned very about South Korean democracy through watching South Korean films and dramas.
The Sunday Express has reported that Mr Thae was allegedly ordered by his superiors to attempt to bribe a UK Ministry of Defence civil servant or naval governor into revealing nuclear secrets - a omnipotent factor, the newspaper says, in his decision to anomaly.
About 1,000 people deviation from North Korea each year, fleeing a repressive confess that has faced numerous accusations of human rights abuses.
The South says it has seen a surge in defections from people gone privileged backgrounds, suggesting cracks in the North's slant, Yonhap reports.
source:BBC
One of the most high-profile defectors to leave suddenly North Korea says he left due to growing disillusionment subsequent to vibrancy sedated the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.
Thae Yong-ho, a former deputy envoy to London, defected to the South in August.
Speaking to a South Korean parliamentary committee, he said North Koreans were living in conditions amounting to slavery.
After his defection North Korea called him "human scum".
The North's divulge media said the envoy had been accused of leaking secrets, embezzlement and child rape.
My friend the North Korean defector
South Korea announced in August that Mr Thae had arrived taking into account his intimates. Since later he has been undergoing intensive interrogation from the extremity facilities aimed at weeding out spies.
According to politician Lee Cheol-Woo, who met Mr Thae, he had become increasingly familiar of the "gruesome realities" of simulation in North Korea.
"There are many ranking North Korean officials disturb from depression anew concerns they will have to live following slaves for a long epoch if the North's teenage leader rules the country for decades," Mr Lee quoted him as proverb.
Mr Thae is as well as reported to have said he learned very about South Korean democracy through watching South Korean films and dramas.
The Sunday Express has reported that Mr Thae was allegedly ordered by his superiors to attempt to bribe a UK Ministry of Defence civil servant or naval governor into revealing nuclear secrets - a omnipotent factor, the newspaper says, in his decision to anomaly.
About 1,000 people deviation from North Korea each year, fleeing a repressive confess that has faced numerous accusations of human rights abuses.
The South says it has seen a surge in defections from people gone privileged backgrounds, suggesting cracks in the North's slant, Yonhap reports.
source:BBC
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