“Kim Han-sol, who was wearing Gucci shoes … I’ve never seen such a rich kid”

One person who is presumed to be Kim Han-sol, the son of Kim Jeong-nam, who was killed last year, appeared in a YouTube video. A man who identified himself as Hansol Kim said in a YouTube video: ‘My name is Hansol Kim. He introduced himself as a member of the Kim family from North Korea. At the same time, he shows his passport to the camera that is taking pictures of him, but it is a black mosaic, so there is no way to verify the related information. He continued: “My father was murdered a few days ago” and “Now I am with my mother and my sister.” At the top right of the video, the letters and markings are engraved with the words ‘Civil Defense Chunlimma’. [유튜브 캡처]

Detailed testimony about the flight from Macau to a third country in 2017 was released from Kim Han-sol, grandson of North Koreans Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-il’s eldest son and Kim Han-sol’s father, Kim Jong-nam, were killed in 2017 at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia by his half-brother, Kim Jong-un, head of the State Council of North Korea.

On the 16th (local time), the American magazine New Yorker published interviews with members such as Adrian Hong Chang (36), head of the anti-North Korean group Free Joseon that rescued Kim. Contributed by Korean-American writer Suki Kim, the title is ‘Underground Movement to Topple the North Korean Regime’. Author Kim, who wrote, infiltrated North Korea in 2011 and published a book about his experiences as an English teacher at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.

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Hong is said to have met Hansol Kim for the first time in Paris in 2013. He said: “Kim Han-sol, who was wearing Gucci shoes, said,” I know the reality of North Korea. ”

He said Kim Han-sol contacted him shortly after his father’s death in 2017 and asked him to “ leave Macau with his mother and younger sister, ” and sent Christopher Ahn, who served as an informant for the US Marine Corps, to rescue his family.

Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, former North Korean leader of the National Defense Commission, and half-Hyeong of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, AP = Yonhap News

Kim Jong-un, chairman of the North Korean State Council. News 1

Ahn, who went to pick up Kim Han-sol himself, recalled that “Kim Han-sol and his family showed up wearing masks, but they were also unusual in Asia.” Hansol Kim was approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall, his mother was a pretty middle-aged woman, and his younger sister, who was wearing jeans, spoke fluent English, reminding us of a teenager in America.

Kim Han-sol told Ahn the story of going fishing with his grandfather, and Ahn said that the story sounded cozy and intimate. Later, he reported that his grandfather had recalled that Kim Jong-il was a former chairman of the National Defense Commission.

Hong said: “Han-sol Kim and his family tried to go to the Netherlands with the help of the Dutch ambassador to Korea at the time of Rodi Embrechts, but after arriving at the airport, they were unable to pass the immigration process and were taken to the hotel at the airport by the side door. ” He added that he sent a free shipbuilding lawyer to come to him, but in the end he didn’t show up. ”

City Aisha (left) and Doan Thi Huong are accused of murdering Kim Jong-nam. [중앙포토]

It is known that Hansol Kim is currently in third countries such as the Netherlands, but it is speculated that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is insuring its recruits. “It was a big mistake to lose Kim Han-sol,” Hong said. “I know that the end goal is the end of the Kim dynasty in North Korea, and that Kim Han-sol is part of that dynasty.”

Mr. Hong said of the North Korean regime, “it does not collapse slowly, it collapses suddenly.” “All revolutions are this way, and North Korea will be the same.” “Even if we provide enough money for the liberalization of North Korea, opening up and reform only causes anxiety,” he added. “The only way to change them is to force them to change.”

Hong also confessed about the situation in which he attacked the North Korean embassy in Spain last year. The operation is said to have proceeded smoothly until local police arrived.

Meanwhile, in April last year, judicial authorities such as the United States’ FBI searched Hong’s residence twice, and in the process, Ahn, who rescued Kim Han-sol, was captured. Currently, the US authorities are seeking a nomination for Hong.

Mr. Hong said, “I am hiding without contact with my family and friends to avoid the authorities,” he said. “I felt the flier wanted by the US Department of Justice was for North Korean agents to find me.” “We will fight the North Korean regime with strength, ideas and bodies until North Koreans can find freedom and determine their own future.”

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