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North Korean diplomat defects
CNN.com ^ | August 17, 2016 | Gul Tuysuz and KJ Kwon

Posted on 08/17/2016 8:24:44 AM PDT by rdl6989

Seoul (CNN)A senior North Korean diplomat, along with his wife and children, has defected and reached safety in South Korea, making it the highest-level diplomatic defection from the Pyongyang regime in history.

Thae Yong Ho, the deputy ambassador of the North Korean embassy in the UK, is under government protection, Jeong Joo-hee, a spokesman for the South Korean Unification Ministry, told reporters Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defection; kimjongun; nkdefection; northkorea
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the highest-level diplomatic defection from the Pyongyang regime in history.
1 posted on 08/17/2016 8:24:44 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Ping


2 posted on 08/17/2016 8:25:13 AM PDT by rdl6989
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This guy has good Intel to share.

Interrogate him.


3 posted on 08/17/2016 8:26:39 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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Must have gotten tired of a steady diet of tree bark!


4 posted on 08/17/2016 8:26:42 AM PDT by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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Seoul (CNN)A senior North Korean diplomat, along with his wife and children

Thank God he was able to make it with the rest of his immediately family. But if he has any other relatives behind, they are in big trouble.

5 posted on 08/17/2016 8:28:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Things must be deteriorating even faster.


6 posted on 08/17/2016 8:30:18 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: dfwgator

They are fine, they are just going camping.


7 posted on 08/17/2016 8:32:17 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, any other relatives he has in NK are walking dead. It’s surprising they let the wife and kids of the ambassador out of the country with him in the first place.


8 posted on 08/17/2016 8:38:05 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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The Norks like to go back three generations...


9 posted on 08/17/2016 8:41:09 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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Thae Yong Ho?

Any relation to Dat Ho? (Not to be confused with Hillary)


10 posted on 08/17/2016 8:41:41 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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SUM TING WONG


11 posted on 08/17/2016 8:45:03 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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....” It’s surprising they let the wife and kids of the ambassador out of the country with him in the first place”.....

That of itself should give pause......I’m sure the authorities will consider this.

Interesting though, but Kim’s been riding his officials for some time. I imagine this guy saw his name on the “list”.


12 posted on 08/17/2016 8:48:25 AM PDT by caww
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To: rdl6989

I realize that it’s a long shot under the current administration, but if ever there was a country deserving of “Regime Change”, North Korea is it. One of these days, someone is going to come over the wall with enough key information to make it possible to finally collapse the Kim dynasty and bring the North Korean people back into the light.


13 posted on 08/17/2016 8:58:52 AM PDT by Little Pig
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North Korea defector...Deputy ambassador Thae Yong-Ho at a 2014 art exhibition at the North Korean embassy in London


14 posted on 08/17/2016 8:59:43 AM PDT by caww
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Ho Lee Phuk


15 posted on 08/17/2016 9:23:57 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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Maybe this will shake a few screws loose in Pyongyang.


16 posted on 08/17/2016 9:30:28 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Congratulations!


17 posted on 08/17/2016 10:24:28 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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Let’s hope for his sake he isn’t sent back, a la Elian Gonzalez.


18 posted on 08/17/2016 10:28:29 AM PDT by daler
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It’s a matter of South Korea and China figuring out how to do it without millions of North Korean refugees pouring over their borders.


19 posted on 08/17/2016 10:30:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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The timing couldn’t have come at a worse time the military exercises are about to start in a few days I suspect we’ll see a North Korean provocation of some type. But I am glad to see he made it to freedom and out of that rat hole


20 posted on 08/17/2016 11:00:38 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade ( America's Party! Tom Hoefling/Steve Schulin 2016)
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