Thae Yong-ho

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Thae Yong-ho in front of the US House of Representatives in November 2017
Korean spelling
Hangeul 태영 호
Hanja 太 永浩
Revised
Romanization 		Tae Yeong-ho
McCune-
Reischauer 		T'ae Yŏng-ho

Thae Yong-ho (born July 25, 1962 in Pyongyang , North Korea ) is a former North Korean diplomat who served as his country's vice ambassador in London and defected to South Korea in August 2016 . He is now active there as a politician and successfully applied for a seat in the Gukhoe for the conservative opposition party Mirae-tonghap in Gangnam-gu in the course of the parliamentary elections in South Korea in 2020 .

Career

Thae studied in his youth in the People's Republic of China , where he learned both Chinese and English. He then studied at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies . Thae started working in the 1980s .

Thae has two sons. The older son graduated from a British university and the younger son was born in Denmark . Before he fled, Thae had a good reputation in his country. He had to leave his sister and brother behind in North Korea when he fled. In early November 2017, Thae spoke to the United States House of Representatives .

On April 15, 2020, Gangnam-gu was elected to the Gukhoe as MP for Seat A of Seoul's Gangnam-gu. He is the first North Korean defector who was able to win a seat in the majority election. So far this has only been achieved through proportional representation .

His hobbies include tennis and golf . Thae is considered a friend of Indian cuisine .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ N Korean envoy in UK defects to South . In: BBC News . ( Online [accessed March 27, 2020]).
  2. ^ Choe Sang-Hun: Ex-North Korean Diplomat Runs for South Korean Parliament . In: The New York Times . February 19, 2020, ISSN  0362-4331 ( Online [accessed March 27, 2020]).
  3. ↑ [당선] 평양 에서 압구정 까지 ... 애국가 부르며 눈물 흘린 태 구민. April 16, 2020, accessed April 15, 2020 (Korean).
  4. ^ Dual Perspective: Reading Thae Yong-ho. August 15, 2018, Retrieved March 27, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Luke Harding, Dina Nagapetyants: North Korean defector Thae Yong-ho was 'sick and tired of the regime' . In: The Guardian . August 17, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( online [accessed March 27, 2020]).
  6. ^ Luke Harding: High-ranking North Korean diplomat in London defects to South Korea . In: The Guardian . August 17, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( online [accessed March 27, 2020]).
  7. ^ David Blair: North Korea's 'tough' and 'sophisticated' deputy ambassador in London defects to the South . In: The Telegraph . August 16, 2016, ISSN  0307-1235 ( online [accessed March 27, 2020]).
  8. ↑ N. Korean defector tells Lester Holt that Kim Jong Un would use nukes. Accessed March 27, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ Soft power 'could bring N Korea uprising' . In: BBC News . November 2, 2017 ( online [accessed March 27, 2020]).
  10. ^ Former High-Ranking North Korean Defector Wins South Korean Parliament Seat. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  11. ^ My friend the North Korean defector . In: BBC News . August 16, 2016 ( online [accessed March 27, 2020]).
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Thae is the family name here, Yong-ho is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Thae, Yong-ho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 태영 호 (Korean, Hangeul); 太 永浩 (Korean, Hanja); Tae Yeong-ho (Revised Romanization); T'ae Yŏng-ho (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Korean diplomat and defector, South Korean politician and activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyongyang , North Korea