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South Korea makes N Korean defector vice minister
Established in September 1948, North Korea, officially the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is under a unitary one-party socialist
republic by a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship by Kim Jong Un, a grandson
of the founding father Kim Il Sung. Its counterpart in the Korean peninsula,
South Korea, the Republic of Korea (ROK), was established a few weeks earlier
than DPRK. It is one of the most developed countries in Asia and is ranked 14th
in GDP in the world. Which Koreans are happier than the other is so obvious.
Despite the strict border control and fear tactics, no fewer than 34,000
individuals have defected from North Korea to the South. One of them is then a deputy
ambassador to the UK, Tae Youg-ho, who fled to the South with his family in
2016. He won a seat representing a district in Seoul in the National Assembly
in 2020. Recently, he was named the new leader of South Korea’s presidential
advisory council on unification, the highest-ranking position among defectors. He
is an advocate for the use of soft power to weaken the Kim regime. Can a former
defector who was denounced as human scum by the North help realize the
reunification?
Read the article and learn about the recent appointment of a former
defector to a vice-ministerial job in South Korea.
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