North Korea calls diplomat defector 'human scum'

[rooster59]

North Korea calls diplomat defector 'human scum' 

 

KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated Press

 

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Saturday that a senior North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea is a criminal and "human scum," in its first official response to the defection.

 

The official Korean Central News Agency also accused Seoul of using the defection of Thae Yong Ho, formerly a minister at the North Korean Embassy in London, for propaganda aimed at insulting the North Korean leadership. It also denounced the British government for ignoring international protocol by rejecting what it said were demands to have Thae extradited back to the North and instead handing him over to the South.

 

KCNA didn't identify Thae by name, but said North Korea had ordered the "fugitive" who had worked at the embassy in Britain to return to the North in June to be investigated for a series of crimes, including embezzling government funds, leaking state secrets and sexually assaulting a minor.

 

It said that Thae "should have received legal punishment for the crimes he committed, but he discarded the fatherland that raised him and even his own parents and brothers by fleeing, thinking nothing but just saving himself, showing himself to be human scum who lacks even an elementary level of loyalty and even tiny bits of conscience and morality that are required for human beings."

 

In announcing the defection, Seoul's Unification Ministry said Wednesday that Thae was the second-highest North Korean official at the embassy and the most senior North Korean diplomat ever to defect to South Korea. In 1997, the North Korean ambassador to Egypt fled but resettled in the United States.

 

The ministry said that Thae decided to defect because of his disgust with the government ofNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his yearning for South Korean democracy and worries about the future of his children.

 

The Unification Ministry didn't immediately respond to a request for comment aboutNorth Korea's claims on Saturday.

 

More than 29,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, according to the South Korean government.

 

Many defectors have said they wanted to leave North Korea's harsh political system and poverty. Pyongyang often accuses the South of deceiving or paying its citizens to defect, or claims that they have simply been kidnapped.

 

In April, 13 North Koreans working at a North Korean-operated restaurant in China defected to South Korea. It was the largest group defection since Kim took power in late 2011. Later in April, South Korea also revealed that a colonel in North Korea's military spy agency had defected to the South last year.

 

Most South Korean analysts say it's premature to take the defections of Thae and other senior officials as indicators that the unity of North Korea's ruling elite is starting to crack because there are no significant signs that Kim's grip on power is weakening.

 

South Korea doesn't always make high-level defection cases public. Its announcement of Thae's defection came with ties between the rivals at one of their lowest points in decades following the North's nuclear test and long-range rocket launch earlier this year.

 

North Korea recently has expressed anger at a U.S. plan to place an advanced missile defense system in South Korea. The North has warned of unspecified retaliation and fired several missiles into the sea earlier this month.

 

 

-- © Associated Press 2016-08-21

[halloween]

I believe the unnamed spokesman for the official Korean Central News Agency may be Mr Kim Wang Kon. The statement is definitely in his style. 

[spidermike007]

A note to the scum dictator Fat Kim: You do not feed your people. You do not provide a life for your people. You do not allow any liberty. You are one of the most insecure men in the world. You have no self esteem. You repress your people as much as possible. You provide them no entertainment options, and a horrific quality of life, while sucking the life blood out of your country, and amassing tremendous personal wealth. You have consumed so much of your dead Dad's wine cellar, you have blown up like a blimp. 

 

Why would anyone who could leave, what to stay? Get a life you worthless turd. 

[Srikcir]

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

he discarded the fatherland that raised him and even his own parents and brothers by fleeing

Certainly discarded the Jongland but not his familiy:

a South Korean government spokesman, Jeong Joon-hee, said at a news conference that the diplomat had arrived recently in South Korea with his wife and family [members]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/world/asia/north-korea-defector-thae-yong-ho-britain.html?_r=0

[klauskunkel]

Funny how NK admits they employ criminals and human scum in high government positions.

[lvr181]

Has any mentally stable person "defected" to North Korea? 

[spidermike007]

All the nitwit, fat, ugly, cowardly, murderous despot dictator has to do is open his borders, and see how many flee, to find out if he is indeed offering the kind of paradise he claims. My guess is that the only  investors they have there are from China. The Chicoms do not care. They have a little bit more freedom at home, as long as they do not criticize their leaders. At least in China people can come and go as they please. And how many tourists will show up to visit N. Korea? How many travel agencies will add it to their Asian tours? Probably about the same number as Afghanistan attracts. About 50 annually. Nimrod "Adventure" travelers. 

Edited August 21, 2016 by spidermike007

[boomerangutang]

.....from the men who are experts in Human Scumology.

[Cuchulainn]

Well, that fat bar-steward Kim Jong Un has a lot to answer for anyway. Try looking in the mirror to see real human scum and detritus.

[soalbundy]

I think he should regard these insults to him as a badge of honour.

[tw25rw]

It's a step up from sub-human scum. He must be feeling nice.

[williamgeorgeallen]

17 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

Funny how NK admits they employ criminals and human scum in high government positions.

you should see how it is in thailand. being corrupt in any govt or public service  position is mandatory.

Edited August 21, 2016 by williamgeorgeallen

[williamgeorgeallen]

his family members still in north Korea must be nervous. the story goes when some one commits a crime they punish them, their children and their parents.

[mca]

19 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

Funny how NK admits they employ criminals and human scum in high government positions.

I believe it's a prerequisite for the job. 

" Are you a self motivated dedicated piece of human excrement who can work to tight deadlines? Do you possess no redeeming features whatsoever and have a face like it caught fire and someone put it out with a shovel? Do you not give a flying one about anybody else and are a consumate arse kisser? Then we want to hear from you! The benefits include an unlimited supply of expensive imported food like Beluga  caviar and Fine de Claire oysters, a natty uniform and hot and cold running wayer in your apartment 24 hours a day. Previous applicants need not apply as they've been executed. The WPK is not an equal opportunities employer. Please send your CV with a current photo and expected length of employment before you're taken outside and shot to hr@deathtotheimperialistfilthinthesouthandtheirrunningdogallies.com

[baboon]

4 hours ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

his family members still in north Korea must be nervous. the story goes when some one commits a crime they punish them, their children and their parents.

Not since 1996.

[hawker9000]

So would this be the overweight, psychotic, hyperbolic, badly-barbered human scum, or the human scum that defects from overweight, psychotic, hyperbolic, badly-barbered human scum?

 

 

[halloween]

On 22/08/2016 at 1:42 PM, baboon said:

Not since 1996.

Given a choice, I think I'd rather be a family member living outside the country than one still resident in DPRK.

[baboon]

2 hours ago, halloween said:

Given a choice, I think I'd rather be a family member living outside the country than one still resident in DPRK.

You could say that about the family members of a sex offender in your home country.

I recall hearing of pediatrician having his / her windows put through once word got around of what he / she did...

[halloween]

56 minutes ago, baboon said:

You could say that about the family members of a sex offender in your home country.

I recall hearing of pediatrician having his / her windows put through once word got around of what he / she did...

I have no idea what you are talking about, or what possible link or equivalence there could be between a Korean defector and an Australian  sex offender.

[baboon]

I am saying you could find yourself ostracised and harassed in your own country for something you had nothing to do with personally.

[halloween]

19 minutes ago, baboon said:

I am saying you could find yourself ostracised and harassed in your own country for something you had nothing to do with personally.

I still fail to see any equivalence. Are you saying the DPRK are likely to break the windows of the defector's family? I suspect the harassment might be far more intense.

[tifino]

 

sending a known child sex offender to a far-off diplomatic post ...

 

 

why do all these sudden accusations make me feel he's made out to be another julian assange?

[baboon]

32 minutes ago, halloween said:

I still fail to see any equivalence. Are you saying the DPRK are likely to break the windows of the defector's family? I suspect the harassment might be far more intense.

As I said, persecution of the families of defectors was ordered halted in 1996. It still may go on, it may not. Neither of us can know for sure.

If it does go on, it is against the orders of Kim Jong Il.

Edited August 23, 2016 by baboon

[SheungWan]

Calling Dennis Rodman..........................