SEOUL: The highest-profile North Korean defector in the South declared himself a candidate for parliament on Tuesday (Feb 11), in a move he said ...
Thae Yong Ho fled his post as North Korea's deputy ambassador to Britain in August 2016 AFP/-SEOUL: The highest-profile North Korean defector in the South declared himself a candidate for parliament on Tuesday , in a move he said would demonstrate democratic freedoms in his new home.
"Once the North Korean people and elites see that Thae Yong Ho, who served as a North Korean diplomat, can be elected by South Koreans," Thae said,"we will be a step closer to the real reunification that we hope for". "I know about the North Korean regime and system more extensively and more deeply than anyone else," Thae said, adding he would offer a"realistic" approach that differs from"unconditional assistance or unconditional confrontation".
A predecessor of the Liberty Korea Party had a defector lawmaker from 2012 to 2016, but Cho Myung-chul was an academic and did not serve in the North Korean government.
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