Posted on 05/28/2016 3:16:42 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The secret life of Kim Jong Un’s aunt, who has lived in the U.S. since 1998
By Anna Fifield
May 27 at 6:00 AM
NEW YORK — Wandering through Times Square, past the Naked Cowboy and the Elmos and the ticket touts, she could be any immigrant trying to live the American Dream.
A 60-year-old Korean woman with a soft perm and conservative clothes, she’s taking a weekend off from pressing shirts and hemming pants at the dry-cleaning business she runs with her husband.
But she’s not just any immigrant. She’s an aunt to Kim Jong Un, the young North Korean leader who has threatened to wipe out New York with a hydrogen bomb.
And for the past 18 years, since defecting from North Korea into the waiting arms of the CIA, she has been living an anonymous life here in the United States, with her husband and three children.
[North Korea’s one-percenters savor life in ‘Pyonghattan’]
“My friends here tell me I’m so lucky, that I have everything,” Ko Yong Suk, as she was known when she was part of North Korea’s royal family, told The Washington Post on a recent weekend. “My kids went to great schools and they’re successful, and I have my husband, who can fix anything. There’s nothing we can envy.”
Her husband, previously known as Ri Gang, chimes in, laughing: “I think we have achieved the American Dream.”
This is the story of how one family went from the top of North Korea to middle America.
Breaking their silence in the United States, Ko and Ri spent almost 20 hours talking to two Washington Post reporters in New York City and then at their home several hours’ drive away.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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They dream about being a bridge between the countries. It will not work.
It’s way too far away and the Pacific is not.
these feel good immigrant stories are nonsense. We need no immigrants. Shut off the pipeline- they bring nothing to the table.
High level defectors like these are cheap for the information we obtain.
Too bad so many at the highest levels despise our country and want to destroy it.
So the Washington Compost thought it wise to out her so her and her husband could be targets?
She apparently appreciates America, likes it even. That makes her anathema to such as the WaPo.
Wa Post tribute to the Korean Vets?
These two former North Koreans probably appreciate America far more than the Entitlement Community, and pay far more in taxes than they gain in benefits if any.
Mort Snerd
5/27/2016 9:59 PM EDTThe Post reporter did not do a good thing 'tracking down' these people. And she did an even worse action by bragging how she did it...step by step.
Ms. Fiefield apparently has not a clue about the U.S. 'Defector Program'. Perhaps this is because she, herself, is not an American. She would do well to turn her 'investigative' lens' to maybe ' investigate the 'citizenship' of her 'assistant' who translates for her. Though he is likely a 'kyo-po' (or as the Japanese would call him, a 'zainichi') i.e. a permanent Korean resident of Japan. he may be a South Korean working directly for, or under control of, South Korean intelligence or security services.
This entire self-congratulating, chest-beating falderal shows WaPo as amateur night at the Bijou'. Picture a reporter 'outing' a mob figure in our 'witness protection program'....take that times ten and you start to get the picture.
You have to wonder who at WaPo vets articles that may compromise U.S. Government programs. The reporter may well be getting a 'knock' on her door from a very serious fellow working for a 'three letter' agency soon.
North Korean intelligence agents now have a very easy job of locating and targeting these folks.
“The Kim family has ruled North Korea for 70 years, through a repressive system built on patronage and fear.”
Hey - we’ve got that system here in Chicago!
Yo, Kim, that aunt you were looking for is in NYC running a laundry.
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