Relative of Top N. Korean Has Defected, Seoul Says
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SEOUL — A North Korean army officer, identified in news reports as a relative of Pyongyang’s late Defense Minister O Jin U, has defected to the South, Seoul’s internal intelligence agency said Thursday.
A spokesman for the Agency for National Security Planning, or NSP, said Capt. O Yong Nam defected to South Korea recently via an unidentified third country and was being questioned by the agency.
“We do not have any further details about his defection,” the spokesman said.
O is the second Pyongyang military officer, and the 27th North Korean, to defect to the South this year.
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