Dec. 29 (Asia Today) --Former People Power Party lawmaker Thae Yong-ho said Monday that North Korea is likely to build a nuclear-powered submarine before South Korea, citing Pyongyang's ability to ...

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Former North Korean diplomat Thae Yong-ho says the country he defected from in 2016 engages in state-sponsored drug trafficking and is now trying to fix a widespread domestic drug addiction epidemic. ...

Seoul government says personal and political motives behind senior diplomat’s defection with family Kum Thae was a typical teenager. He went to a school in Acton, west London, used Facebook and ...

March 13 (UPI) --A high-profile North Korean defector running for a seat in the South Korean parliament condemned a fellow politician in his own party, following reports of disapproving remarks. Thae ...

On April 15, the constituents of Seoul’s most affluent district in Gangnam elected a North Korean defector as their parliamentary representative in a general election held at the height of the global ...

A child of the country’s elite, he was given privileged access to carefully selected British and American books and films, such as The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins, to hone his English skills. It ...

Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Thae Yong-Ho airs at 2 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CET on CNN International. North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to the UK, who defected to South Korea in 2016, tells CNN ...

A former North Korean diplomat has won a parliamentary seat in South Korea’s swankiest district, four years after fleeing a London embassy and defecting to the South. Thae Yong-ho was Pyongyang’s ...

Thae, the former deputy ambassador at the North Korean embassy in the United Kingdom, became the highest-ranking defector in nearly 20 years when he left his post last year. He told CNN he defected ...