Posted on 12/14/2010 3:39:41 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
NK Defector to Head to S.Korea
Write 2010-12-14 17:57:11 Update 2010-12-14 18:38:32
Japan’s Kyodo News says a North Korean defector will come to South Korea.
Quoting a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees official, Kyodo News said that an interpreter for the North Korean military secretly entered eastern Russia in September. It said the Russian government turned down his request for asylum and that South Korea will accept him.
The North Korean defector testified that he was an interpreter for Russian relations for high-ranking North Korean military officials. He reportedly said he defected due to difficulties under the Kim Jong-il regime.
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Not that long ago the Ruskies would have returned him.
Right. I see some sign that Russia is distancing itself from N. Korea, while China is getting closer to.
Translated: "I'm tired of starving"
Or maybe he’d like to survive the upcoming reunification + future war crimes trials for NorK perps.
Just as I suggested recently.
You start with the overseas DPRK missions, and start enticing them to come over the fence to freedom, publicly assailing Kim Jong il and Kim Jong Un (especially) if you can get them to do it as part of the bargain. That will really put the leadership's testes in a grinder back in Pyongyang, might even pop a corpuscle in the brain of some aging Politboro member of the KWP, ie if too much of it starts to happen here and there.
And yes, Russia did tear a visting high level DPRK diplomat a new on the other day in Moscow, this was not a happy visting camper from Pyongyang emerging from their Moscow (foreign ministry) meeting, according to the video. They got the DPRK on uranium facilities as well as destabilizing the whole region what with Junior's most reckless attack on Yeongpyong Island last month in the South.
I hear that NK media covered the content of joint announcement, but left out the part where Russia explicitly criticized N. Korea for the shelling. :-)
Your prediction will be further confirmed as more defections of the same nature continue to occur.
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