FOX News: North Korea's top diplomat in Italy defected, embarrassing Kim Jong Un
North Korea’s acting ambassador to Italy defected with his wife in November, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Thursday, striking an embarrassing blow to leader Kim Jong Un and his communist regime.
Jo Song Gil, 48, and his wife left the official residence in early November, weeks before his term was set to end, an official from Seoul’s National Intelligence Service said, according to South Korean lawmaker Kim Min-ki.
He was the acting ambassador in Rome since Oct. 2017, after the Italian government expelled the now-former ambassador Mun Jong Nam in retaliation for a nuclear test by North Korea that year, the AFP reported.
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2 comments:
So how many of his relatives in North Korea will meet death by anti-aircraft gun?
What intel might he have?
What are his reasons?
No kidding, he must have no living relatives that he cares much about.
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