Former North Korea Diplomat To Run In South’s Elections.
Former North Korean deputy ambassador to Britain Thae Yong Ho speaks as he announces he will join South Korea’s main opposition Liberty Korea Party, during a press conference in Seoul on February 11, 2020. YONHAP / AFPThe highest-profile North Korean defector in the South declared himself a candidate for parliament Tuesday, in a move he said would demonstrate democratic freedoms in his new home.
South Korean media reports cited LKP officials saying he would be recommended for a constituency in Seoul’s wealthy Gangnam district, a party stronghold, giving him a strong chance of success in the April 15 legislative election. Moon’s dovish policies on North Korea and reunification were going in the “wrong direction”, Thae said.
Thae is one of the highest-ranking North Korean diplomats ever to defect to the South, gifting Seoul’s then-conservative government a major propaganda coup at a time of rising tension on the divided Korean peninsula.
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