By our Asia
Affairs correspondent
A
Democratic Korean envoy based in London who disappeared last month resurfaced
in south Korea last week spouting the usual Cold War drivel about choosing
“freedom” for the benefit of his new puppet regime handlers. But the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) says that Thae Yong Ho fled after being
recalled to answer charges of selling state secrets, embezzling state funds and
raping a minor.
Thae, a senior diplomat well known
on the Korean solidarity scene in London, had worked in London for about 10
years. According to the south Koreans, Thae had “cited disgust with [DPRK
leader] Kim Jong Un's regime, admiration for South Korea's free, democratic
system and the future of his family."
In fact the Democratic Korean authorities
had recalled Thae in June to put him under investigation – and on 12th
July the DPRK's Central Procuratorate began a probe into the grave allegations
against him.
“He deserved a legal punishment for his
crimes,” a commentary on the Korean national news agency said. “But he took to
flight, betraying his country and parents and other kith and kin. He thus
revealed himself as human scum bereft of elementary sense of moral obligation
and conscience.”
When Thae “disappeared” the DPRK informed
the British government of the charges against him, along with a request for his
extradition. This was ignored, not surprisingly, because the traitor was
already under British protection. British intelligence, in tandem with an
American “elite multi-agency group”, provided the transport for Thae and his
family to leave the country, a fact confirmed by the Sunday Express last weekend.
The Sunday paper claimed that Thae “made
his first contact with British intelligence agents two months ago at a golf
club in Watford.” The article goes on to say that Thae
signed a letter of thanks he had previously began writing, which he asked to be
hand-delivered to the Prime Minister Theresa May. whilst on the flight from RAF
Brize Norton to the US Air Force base at Ramstein, in Germany. “Once in
Germany,” the Sunday Express says,
“the family and some of the agents were transferred to another aircraft, bound
for Seoul.”
New Worker
26th August 2016
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