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A South Korean man who had worked for the U.S. military has defected to North Korea, the North's official news agency claimed Wednesday. Kim Ki-ho, 59, left to the North because he could no longer stand South Korean society where national dignity and human rights are infringed on by the United States, the North's Korean Central News Agency said. Kim "is now spending happy days amid the hospitality of people in the north," KCNA said without providing details on when Kim went to the North.
The report said Kim was a native of the industrial town of Gumi, and had once worked as an inspector at the 6th Ordnance Battalion, at the U.S. 8th Army Headquarters in South Korea. The U.S. military couldn't immediately confirm if any person by that name had worked for them. Although thousands of North Koreans have defected to the South, including more than 1,850 this year, defections of South Koreans to the North are rare. |