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It turned out that a former North Korean ambassador to Italy arrived in South Korea last July and disappeared with his wife in Rome in November 2018. Zso Son Gil, a South Korean MP, has announced that he is under government protection. writes CNN.
All that was known about the former ambassador was that in January 2019 he applied for asylum in a western country, meaning that he turned his back on Pyongyang as a senior official. In early 2016, in 2016, the North Korean ambassador applied for asylum in London.
Tson Gil Gil became Chargé d’Affaires of the North Korea Representation in Rome in October 2017 after Italy expelled the former ambassador in protest of North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests. Cso had been serving in his country’s embassy in Rome since 2015, and that service would have expired in November 2018.
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