North korea’s ambassador in Italy, The Song Gil, deserting and seeking asylum for himself and his family in the country.
It writes the south Korean media JoongAng Ilbo.
Topdiplomaten and his family has lived in Rome since October of 2017. The family searched according to the media asylum in the last month, but the news has only emerged now.
the Ambassador is the ‘son or son-in-law to one of the top leaders of the north Korean regime’, says an anonymous source to the JoongAng Ilbo.
Italian authorities have not yet taken a position on the request, but ‘protects him in a safe place’, informs an anonymous source.
Normally get the north Korean diplomats who are posted abroad told to leave family members in north Korea.
most Often it is the children who must be left, in order to ensure that diplomats do not find that defect.
Nevertheless, had The Song Gil his wife and children when he arrived to Rome in may 2015. It indicates, according to the anonymous source, that he comes from a privileged and powerful family in north Korea.
Several hundreds of thousands of north koreans have been punished by being sent to labour camps without trial.
Many die in the camps without ever knowing the charges against them. It shows a comprehensive study of human rights in north Korea.
Finally, a north Korean topdiplomat deserted, was in 2016. Time left Thae Tong Ho his post as ambassador in London to seek asylum.
Approximately 30,000 north koreans are also deserting to south Korea, since the Korean war ended in 1953.
