A South Korean source revealed on May 25 that North Korea’s former chargé d’affaires to Kuwait has defected to South Korea and is now settled in the South, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The sources said Ryu Hyun-woo, then North Korea’s ambassador to Kuwait, was expelled after the U.N. Security Council adopted a sanctions resolution against North Korea in September 2017, and then served as acting ambassador and entered South Korea with his Family.
Some media reports say that Ryu entered South Korea in September 2019, at a similar Time to Cho Sung-gil, the former acting North Korean ambassador to Italy, who entered in July 2019.
It is reported that Ryu Hyun-woo decided to leave the North mainly because of his children’s future, and some commentators believe that Ryu Hyun-woo is the son-in-law of Chun Il-chun, head of Room 39 of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Sources from the South Korean National Intelligence Service said they had no comment on the rumors of Ryu Hyun-woo’s entry into South Korea.
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