High-level defection: why N. Korean diplomatic family chose freedom
"I wanted to never return to North Korea and questioned why North Koreans had to live such a hard life," she told AFP in an interview in Seoul, where she now lives.
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North Korean defector Oh Hye Son, who recently published a Korean-language memoir on how she and her husband Thae Yong Ho, then deputy ambassador at North Korea's. (AFP)
By NewVision Reporter
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N.KOREA | S.KOREA |
Born into an elite North Korean family with ties to the ruling dynasty, Oh Hye Son grew up believing she was "special," but then