Another North Korean diplomat defected? Two months after North Korea’s former acting ambassador to Italy Cho Sung-gil defected to South Korea, North Korea’s former acting ambassador to Kuwait has also defected to South Korea with his Family and is now living in the country, suspected of taking risks for the future of his children, according to South Korean media reports, a source said.
According to the Yonhap News Agency, the source said that after the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on sanctions against North Korea in September 2017, the then North Korean ambassador to Kuwait, Seo Chang-sik, was expelled from the country, and after that, Yoo Hyun-woo, who was acting as ambassador, defected to South Korea with his family in September 2019, when his diplomatic rank was that of counselor. It is said that Yoo’s decision to defect to South Korea was mainly based on the future of his children.
According to the newspaper’s previous report, the former acting ambassador of North Korea to Italy, Cho Sung-gil, had been missing for a long Time, but it was later confirmed by South Korean officials that Cho and his wife had defected to South Korea as early as July 2019, but they were afraid of involving their families in North Korea, so they did not dare to disclose it.
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