A South Korean man who defected to North Korea is expected to head Pyongyang’s second-largest political faction
SEOUL—A South Korean man who defected to North Korea appears likely to fill a high-ranking role in Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp legislature, a position formerly held by his late parents, who defected in 1986.
Seoul officials are still probing for answers surrounding the mysterious defection of Choe In-guk, 73, who resettled to Pyongyang over the weekend. The number of South Koreans who have fled to the Kim regime in recent decades numbers only in the dozens, experts say.
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