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"defector" Definitions
  1. defector (from A) (to B) a person who leaves a political party, country, etc. to join another that is considered to be an enemy

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Over the years, defector after defector came to the West with the same story.
An earlier K.G.B. defector, Anatoliy Golitsyn, had convinced Mr. Angleton that every K.G.B. defector after him would be a double agent.
Kang Mi-jin, a defector who regularly speaks with North Koreans for the defector-run Daily NK website, said some construction work at Samjiyon was temporarily halted last month due to safety problems.
The defector then plans his escape, which can take months.
Defector serving his first full term: Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania.
Sergei Skripal was not the only defector in Russia's sights.
Mr. Thae is the first North Korean defector to seek a popularly elected parliamentary seat in the South; another defector sat in Parliament from 2012 to 2016 as an expert nominated by a political party.
The reporter who wrote the story is a North Korean defector.
"I await[ing] instructions," defector William Cancino González, 24, told CNN.
Later, Susan Collins, another potential Republican defector, called the proposal "sensible".
In other words, she isn't a victim; she is a defector.
A. Yes, but nobody knew I was a North Korean defector.
The defector painted his birth country as one in dire straits.
The top-ranking Soviet Bloc defector of the Cold War, Gen.
They did this whenever they got a defector or someone captured.
Early on in the game, a Nazi defector joins your team.
A Chinese defector to Australia who detailed political interference by Beijing.
As you know I am an offspring of North Korea defector.
The former assistant state attorney might not be Biden's only Florida defector.
Intelligence sources confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Poteyev is indeed that defector.
Thae is the highest-level defector from North Korea in two decades.
The defector made it across the border, taking shelter near a building.
His long program is built on the story of a Chinese defector.
The fact he asked for asylum in Russia makes him a defector.
But when it came to Edward Snowden, you called him a defector.
The defector, who plays piano, dreamed of studying music in the capital.
You showed that you had the defector in the first lady's box.
Chinese policy is: If you report a North Korean defector, you'll get paid.
Why does China always want to support North Korea, even on defector issues?
It mustered a group of professors from related departments to grill the defector.
The defector is currently in South Korean military custody, according to the statement.
The defector is currently in South Korean military custody, according to a statement.
It turns out Mr. Skripal was not the only defector in Russia's sights.
They signed first baseman Jose Abreu, a Cuban defector, before the 2014 season.
But he is a Russian stooge, and a traitor and defector by default.
Dwight showed up at Alexandria last week, claiming to de a Savior defector.
Another defector Jang Jin-Sung said North Koreans do not consider themselves slaves.
CANBERRA, Australia — A Chinese defector to Australia who detailed political interference by Beijing.
"Since I am a defector, I am a stranger in this society," he says.
But perhaps the most important Trump defector to date is Tennessee senator Bob Corker.
But a defector from Kim Jong Un's regime told Bloomberg there's a dark side.
These chilling facts have been confirmed over and again during our ISIS defector interviews.
It is unclear whether that person is an intelligence asset, defector or someone else.
Mr. Xiang, in an email, claimed he did not know the would-be defector.
Other North Korean soldiers began shooting at the defector, wounding him in the process.
We only have one defector in the Senate right now: Ron Johnson (R-WI).
The North Korean defector is currently in military custody, South Korean military officials said.
After he was shot, the defector collapsed against a wall on the South Korean side.
Shankar Sinh Vagela, one defector, derided Congress as a "rudderless ship" unable to win elections.
THAE YONG HO, NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR DIPLOMAT: He will never give up his nuclear development.
Hyeonseo Lee, a defector and author, describes how common fortune-tellers are in North Korea.
In 2014, a deep-pocketed sponsor the defector declined to identify began supporting his effort.
Rumors circulated in the defector community that five bodies had been returned to North Korea.
Feature A popular show gives "defector beauties" a chance to tell stories from the North.
After the vehicle crashes, the defector runs to freedom, flanked by soldiers unloading their weapons.
NBC News is broadcasting from South Korea for the next two nights and just today, the network ran an interview with a North Korean defector named Thae Yong Ho. "If Kim Jong-un has nuclear weapons and ICBMs, he can do anything," the defector said.
Every House Democrat voted against it, and they were joined by just one Republican defector, Rep.
In 2016 a defector from IS provided a list of foreign recruits; 114 came from Xinjiang.
Voting to remove the president requires a two-thirds majority, and the single GOP defector — Sen.
The defector, whose last name is Oh, required emergency treatment for his wounds, including extensive surgery.
Jon Snow goes undercover with the Free Folk as a defector (and doesn't fully fool them).
"I was taught South Korean geography down to what minerals and grains are produced in each region, history that happened on South Korean soil," said Park Na-ri, a North Korean defector educator who taught Korean and literature in Pyongyang and now teaches defector children in Seoul.
Once the defector reaches government territory, he will be debriefed by Somali intelligence, which can take weeks.
With 52 Republicans in the Senate, one defector isn't enough to stop Trump from getting nominees confirmed.
You showed that — you had the defector in the First Lady's box with the crutches, who escaped.
The soldier was the first defector to pass through the DMZ since 1984, according to NBC News.
Fernandez was a defector from Cuba at 15 who became a magnificent pitcher for the Miami Marlins.
The South says North Koreans fired about 40 rounds from AK-47s and rifles at the defector.
Others are unknowns: a Libyan interrogator, a Yemeni tribesman, a Kuwaiti volunteer for (then defector from) ISIS.
It shows heat signatures of the wounded defector and three soldiers who are tasked with recovering him.
One high-level defector even became a pizza deliveryman upon resettling in the US, according to Augustyn.
In 2008, Choi Hyun-joon, 51, a North Korean defector in Seoul, hired a middleman in China.
"We know that the U.S. will save us," one defector said over lunch at a local Subway.
But Evgheniya told her it was a no-go — the defector couldn't or wouldn't return to Russia.
Soon after, he brought a Soviet defector from Alexandria to Cairo for a transfer to West Germany.
WASHINGTON — It was July 2014 when the Syrian defector, using the pseudonym Caesar, last slipped into Washington.
This week, the BBC named Poteyev as that endangered defector, still very much alive despite his 2016 obituaries.
But if all the neighbors around a defector mimic that behavior, the altruistic acts dry out tout suite.
In 2006, FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London with a cup of tea containing radioactive polonium.
Rather than being a defector like Litvinenko, Mr Skripal arrived in Britain as part of a sanctioned swap.
Trump honored a North Korean defector, Ji Seong-ho, Tuesday night at his State of the Union address.
"Anthrax antibodies have been found in the North Korean defector who has escaped this year," the officer said.
While in hiding, Park fell in love with another defector whose own son had died in the famine.
He said he had recognized another defector panelist on the show, which typically pays its participants for appearances.
Bobby Valentine was the manager of the Mets, and Rey Ordonez, a Cuban defector, was the team's shortstop.
Until Monday, no North Korean defector had crossed the demarcation line in the Joint Security Area since 2007.
Only one North Korean defector arrived in the United States in 2017; five have been admitted this year.
A defector, who went by the pseudonym Caesar, escaped with photographs of thousands of starved, bruised detainee corpses.
"They said a North Korean defector didn't arrive with a legitimate Chinese passport as I did," he said.
"There is wide discontent and disappointment by the military men towards Guaidó," one defector said in an interview.
At the South's embassy in Bangkok, diplomats were surprised to see their first North Korean defector on crutches.
If every Democrat votes against a Trump nominee, it would take just one Republican defector to block confirmation.
The former Syrian agent, turned defector, says that the Assad government "regularly monitored" TV broadcasts and newspaper articles.
"If you don't make money through markets, you are likely to die of hunger," a recent defector said.
Four North Korean soldiers chased after him, shooting at the defector about 40 times and hitting him five times.
This is not impossible, as trade and defector networks manage to bring much information from outside into the North.
Defector does have some seemingly unavoidable quirks to achieve its blend of movement freedom and shoot 'em up combat.
After all, North Korean soldiers shot at the defector around 40 times, and one even stepped over the border.
The defector said Kim won't give up on nukes even if offered big bags of cash to stop. 3.
Some say, do you think Chinese authorities were stupid enough not to realize you were a North Korean defector?
Hwang's department was in charge of making sure soldiers like the defector are properly indoctrinated and never contemplate fleeing.
Defector interviews and research about the North help paint a picture of a country undergoing social and political change.
He is a former Syrian prime minister and the highest level defector from Syrian President Bashar al Assad's government.
Now, he is openly asking the South to repatriate him, only the second defector to make such an appeal.
But just because he was not good at it does not mean he is not a traitor and defector.
Van Drew's statement ensures that House Democrats will have at least one defector Wednesday in the full House vote.
"Kim Jong-un is no fool," said Kang Mi-jin, a defector who once ran her own wholesale business.
A would-be Chinese defector named two Hong Kong executives as acting as a front for Chinese intelligence agencies.
The United Nations commission, in a report last year, quoted a defector from an intelligence agency as saying officers had orders to arrest male demonstrators between the ages of 2000 and 22013; another defector described his training in techniques that detainees have described, like beatings with cables, hanging by the wrists and electrocution.
In the videos the defector provided to CNN, you can hear men complaining that the drones' screws are too tiny.
South Korea's strict gun control laws also mean there are far fewer gunshot wounds like those suffered by the defector.
Some have been sent to prison camps as punishment or are threatened with harm, according to one high-profile defector.
"Most people are now involved in the black market," Yeon-mi Park, a North Korean defector, told CNBC in 2014.
Each defector is matched with a local sponsor who can vouch for his whereabouts and well-being at any moment.
G.D. Hwang, a defector who arrived two years ago, works at a factory by day and at a Walmart overnight.
When tree cover is too dense to see the wounded defector crawling across the border, it switches to infra-red.
In 2006, a defector from the Federal Security Service in Russia died from poisoning with a radioactive isotope, polonium 210.
Thae Yong-ho is the first defector from the North to seek popular election as a lawmaker in the South.
On Saturday, police prevented a planned release of balloons by a defector group after a confrontation with anti-leaflet protesters.
Because of that, she wants to see more funds given to defector interest groups that are led by defectors themselves.
In one testimonial, a defector cited a neighbor who saw security officers hacking a victim to death in a garage.
Mr. Wang suggested he understood that Australia might again need to be persuaded before standing up for a single defector.
If his defection is confirmed, he would be the highest-ranking defector since Kim Jong-un became leader in 2011.
Mr. Rajapaksa, who many believed was an entrenched autocrat, lost to a defector from his own government, he pointed out.
Leo Ryan, of California, three newsmen and a defector who were visiting Jonestown to investigate allegations of abuse on the members.
One of them was an Iraqi defector with the telling alias of "Curveball," who claimed that Hussein possessed mobile bioweapons labs.
Trump appeared to celebrate Amash's departure on Twitter, slamming him as a party defector who would not have been re-elected.
A defector crossing the Francisco de Paula Santander bridge said that the government had ordered the colectivos "to massacre the people".
He has few friends and being the only out gay defector in the South has made settling in twice as hard.
By the time the documentary was released, he was the only American defector left in the country, according to the film.
South Korean soldiers fired 20 warning shots to repel North Korean border guards who may have been looking for the defector.
I spotted women on the train making the trek to and from their overnights, feeling like a defector from the tribe.
Prized offseason free agent and St. Louis Cardinals defector Jason Heyward has been awful at the plate, putting up .202/.313/.
Surgeon Lee Cook-jong said a hip fracture and the potential for infection could still be problematic for the unnamed defector.
One defector I met in Seoul blasted the show for presenting an outdated view of North Korea, all abuse and starvation.
But it has spurned Mr. Kim's repeated appeals for asylum, considering him not a North Korean defector but a Chinese citizen.
And he hailed the escape of Ji Seong-ho, a North Korean defector who lost his leg before his harrowing journey.
Ahmad Saud, an army defector and rebel commander once backed by the United States, ended up stranded in the arrivals area.
"When North Koreans first saw him, we thought Kim Il-sung was reincarnated," said Baek Yu-min, a North Korean defector.
Gilmore said that years of meticulous investigation led him and his team to the defector, code-named "Ulysses" in court documents.
The two Koreas even traded fire in 2014 after the North's military shot machine guns at balloons launched by defector activists.
While they welcome abusing his status and information, Snowden is a traitor and defector to the espionage world as a whole.
Syrian military defector general Ahmad Rahhal said the talks in Moscow on Monday "were humiliating to Turkey" and had angered Ankara.
"This index makes us visible," said Yeon-Mi Park, a defector who spoke at a news conference at United Nations headquarters.
The defector, Thae Yong-ho, says that Mr. Kim is meeting with Mr. Trump to buy time and get sanctions relief.
Usually, women like Lee pay brokers $500 to $1,000 to organize their safe passage to China, according to NGOs and defector accounts.
"There are a lot of local fighters who want to quit," says an IS defector who fled to Turkey four months ago.
"Russia is concerned with opening major highways that are symbols of sovereignty for the regime," said Syrian military defector general Ahmad Rahhal.
" Bernadette Anderson, whose son Andr is another defector from Prince's band, says, "You either go along with Prince or not at all.
Park said the defector Thae was the member of an elite family in North Korea, the son of a high-profile general.
But in one remarkable case, those hackers had an unusual advantage: the alleged help of an American defector with top secret clearance.
Several shots hit buildings in the South, and a North Korean guard briefly ran across the border as he pursued the defector.
His brokers on the ground send photographs to him of businesses the defector has funded, using cellphones connected to China's mobile network.
The defector makes it over the border, and then turns around and runs back towards the North before collapsing by the wall.
Just one more Republican defector on top of that (Rand Paul is a likely choice) could make the whole thing a nonstarter.
With his qualms now set aside, Soviet intelligence enlisted him to assist in killing the defector Ignatz Reiss, and he readily agreed.
" A North Korean defector surnamed Choi told CNN there was concern that someone working for the organization might have "purposefully leaked it.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on North Korea, with testimony from a high-ranking defector, at 22019 a.m.
The defector was shot about five times and badly injured, but emergency medical treatment in South Korea has helped stabilize his condition.
A high-profile defector said if this was true it would be another sign of a "crack in the elite" in Pyongyang.
One weekly guest, defector Ko Ji-eun, said she was a fan of Kim's show while hiding in China for several years.
It was another record contract for a Cuban defector, and it turned out to be a bargain for Chicago, as Abreu hit .
You can find online the thousands of photos of the dead in government custody leaked by the Syrian defector code-named Caesar.
Lee Min-bok, a North Korean defector, said it was an eye-opening experience for many young people in the totalitarian state.
But Mr. Cohen's choice stands in stark contrast to Wednesday night's impeachment vote against President Trump, which saw not one Republican defector.
Along with a fellow ESPN defector, Jason Whitlock, Horowitz executed a more concentrated version of the strategy he had pioneered at ESPN.
Seoul (CNN)A North Korean defector is packing balloons with information about Kim Jong Nam's death and floating them north from South Korea.
Democrats only have leverage on nominees if one Republicans defector joins them, which almost happened last week with new NASA director Jim Bridenstine.
The South Korean government has cracked down on defector groups who use balloons to send contraband and anti-Kim leaflets into North Korea.
Late on Tuesday, Certusnet Information and Technology Co became the latest defector, saying its shareholders will vote later this month to jump ship.
"We know from defector interviews that North Koreans who operate outside the country need to earn a salary to stay abroad," said Moriuchi.
A trade official in Zimbabwe was making so much that "in 2013 and 2014, he paid loyalty money of $200,000," said the defector.
In them he denied being a defector and claimed to have been hiding out from CIA operatives in the U.S. state of Virginia.
"Soccer is highly cherished as a sport that boosts solidarity and collectivity, which are crucial elements in North Korean society," said one defector.
Hong Soon-jick, a research fellow at state-run Korea Institute for National Unification, said defector financiers can use the same funding routes.
"So many people died that we began calling it 'ghost disease,'" a North Korean defector named Lee Jeong Hwa recently told NBC News.
A typical defector takes weeks or months to flee to the South, often traveling through the jungles of Southeast Asia with human traffickers.
The sponsor accepts responsibility for checking on the defector, monitoring his welfare, and, if potential security concerns arise, communicating with local security forces.
"Thae has huge potential in terms of being a defector spokesman and icon," said Sokeel Park of LiNK, an organization working with defectors.
It's still unclear under what conditions the North Korean defector was retrieved, with the spokesman saying he was found collapsed in some bushes.
North Korea defector flees This footage captured a North Korean soldier fleeing across the demilitarized zone as his former comrades shot at him.
A North Korean defector claimed earlier this year that Pyongyang may have hundreds of attack drones capable of unleashing biological and chemical weapons.
For their part, many defector groups criticize the South Korean government for downplaying human rights concerns in its communications with North Korean officials.
This year, a defector from Alternative for Germany accused him of having advised the party's former co-leader on how to avoid surveillance.
What's critical to understand about this group is that there's a key split in the kind of defector from Sanders's embrace of Clinton.
We also looked at the so-called truce village, above, where a North Korean defector on Monday made a bold dash through gunfire.
Dramatic video footage of the escape was released this week, showing the unnamed defector fleeing in a military jeep, and then on foot.
Other memos report deaths of detainees, some later identified among photos of thousands of prisoner corpses smuggled out by a military police defector.
Days before, the FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko had died in the full glare of the world's media after being poisoned with radioactive polonium.
A would-be defector detailed what he claimed were covert efforts by Chinese military intelligence to manipulate the outcome of elections in Taiwan.
Edel González Jiménez says he is not a defector, but a firm believer in the Cuban system who wants to see it reformed.
Her questions about how her parents were handling the defector Alexei Morozov led to their admitting that they sometimes took on other identities.
Indeed, the first senior defector from the new Bolshevik state, Boris Bajanov, fled to British India in 1928 with assassins on his tail.
Kang Eung Chan, a defector who had lived in Wonsan, said he took a three-day trip to the ski resort in 2013.
"For the Kim family, everyone is a potential enemy," Choi Min Jun, a North Korean defector living in South Korea, told the BBC.
"Terrorists should forfeit their assets," says a Christian businesswoman, who was given a plush café that belonged to the family of a Sunni defector.
The investigative files also include information from Anil O., a German-Turkish defector from ISIS tied to the network, now cooperating with German authorities.
Jang Jin-sung, a former poet laureate under Kim Jong-il who was involved in creating regime propaganda, is another prominent high-level defector.
Around this time, Poteyev also registered to vote in the 2016 election as a Republican, again giving personal details that match the Russian defector.
One concern is the formation of the Party of Hope, led by the governor of Tokyo and recent defector from the LDP, Yuriko Koike.
That practice has been criticized by rights groups as tantamount to forced child labor, and testimonies collected by defector groups describe harsh training regimes.
The performances have been criticized by rights groups as tantamount to forced child labor, and testimonies collected by defector groups describe harsh training regimes.
"One day I was a model defector, and the next they made me an evil spy," Mr. Yu said in an interview in 2014.
Whitman, who spent $85033 million of her own money on her gubernatorial bid, is described by the Times as "a prized defector" for Clinton.
Alexander Litvinenko, a defector from the Russian security services and outspoken critic of the Kremlin, was murdered with radioactive polonium in London in 2006.
The troops exchanged fire with South Korean soldiers in the Joint Security Area, killing one and wounding two others, but the defector escaped uninjured.
Mr. Morley said that the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. were well aware of Oswald, a former defector to the Soviet Union, before the killing.
In the next segments of the footage, the North Korean defector lay motionless among leaves beside a wall 55 yards south of the border.
"The last thing the North Korean authorities want is for its people to envy the South," said Jung Gwang-il, a North Korean defector.
Kirkus Reviews praised "The Defector," the first of the Graham books, as "classy spy intrigue" that showed a continuing sharpening of Ms. Anthony's talents.
Actually, The New York Times did an amazing interview with the defector at the time -- there was a lot more to it than that.
The assassination had, as the defector said in his dying statement, shown just how brutal Putin truly was, and finally the world was listening.
Thae Yong Ho, high-ranking North Korean diplomat and defector, told the foreign policy establishment exactly what they wanted to hear in his Nov.
"The capture of Nairab has restored opposition morale and the next target of the campaign is Saraqeb," said Syrian military defector general Ahmad Rahhal.
North Korean defector Han Sung-ok, 603, and her six-year-old son Kim Dong-jin were found dead at the end of July.
South Korean military personnel fired roughly 20 warning shots at North Korean border guards looking for a defector, Yonhap News Agency reported Wednesday night.
Any profit will be used to support Bandi's family and books by defector writers living in South Korea, Mr. Do said in an interview.
A month after the Cheonan sank, South Korea apprehended two spies believed to have been sent to assassinate a high-ranking North Korean defector.
But once Mr Hun Sen, a defector from the Khmers Rouges sheltered by Vietnam, fully consolidated power in the 1990s, China began assiduously courting him.
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point examined ISIS files that were obtained from an ISIS defector who gave them to NBC News last year.
The aspiring defector decided to sit tight, deterred by the prospect of a lengthy and intensive application process that would undoubtedly blow the official's cover.
And like many other games Oculus funds, Defector stands both as a creative endeavor and as a technical example of what VR is capable of.
That includes adding dialogue role-playing options; players can select a background like "street kid" or corporate defector and gain access to special conversation trees.
The video reveals the defector initially used an army vehicle before fleeing on foot, and shows him being dragged to safety by South Korean soldiers.
A defector from North Korea's suspected hacking branch of the government said the unit is intended to act as a demonstration of North Korean capacity.
INSIDE PITCH The Mets worked out the free-agent infielder Yulieski Gourriel, a Cuban defector, at their spring training complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Trump also met Hitomi Soga, a former abductee who during her time in North Korea married American defector and former US serviceman Charles Robert Jenkins.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)A North Korean defector has issued an emotional plea to one of the world's most powerful men, China's President Xi Jinping.
There is a chance that the hack may impact the families of defectors, since the identity of every defector is not known in North Korea.
"I am counting on President Trump," said Kim Seong-min, a defector who runs Free North Korea Radio, which broadcasts from Seoul into the North.
"Now on My Way" has generally fallen in line with Moon's principles, though some of its defector beauties now support regime change in the North.
A North Korean defector who sought refugee in the US voted in a US election for the first time on Super Tuesday in Dallas, Texas.
A top intelligence official "wanted to learn their location and take the necessary measures to stop them from reporting," the defector says in the documents.
The men suspected of poisoning Alexander Litvenenko, a Russian defector poisoned and killed with polonium on UK soil, similarly protested their innocence safely from overseas.
This collection of more than 28,000 images smuggled out by a military defector codenamed Caesar showed emaciated and wounded dead bodies of detainees in regime prisons.
"I didn't want to cut my hair, but we didn't have a choice," says Hye-soo Kim, a defector who left Chongjin, North Korea at 20183.
A combination of foreign DVDs, USB drives and defector-run radio stations are all slowly chipping away at the propaganda that Pyongyang monopolized for so long.
"We thought we were dying because we were poor and we ate badly," defector Lee Jeong Hwa, who fled North Korea in 2013, told NBC News.
Attorneys for the family compared the shooting to that of a North Korean defector trying to desperately flee to safety in South Korea in November 2017.
Like the defector, attorneys argue Finicum was attempting to cross county lines toward a local sheriff who had been sympathetic and supportive of the refuge occupiers.
Citing peshmerga forces on the ground, CBS News also reported that the alleged defector had left IS-controlled territory and was trying to return to Turkey.
The case is similar for the two Russians accused of poisoning a Russian defector and his daughter with a nerve agent in Salisbury in early March.
Even when relations between the North and South have been difficult, people on the North would support their fellow Koreans, said Hong Kang-cheol, another defector.
Olivera, a Cuban defector obtained from the Dodgers a year ago, is just finishing an 82-game suspension for violation of the league's domestic-abuse policy.
The defector, who escaped through China in the early 22.5s, has also sent acupuncture needles, handbags, hair dye, vitamins and lingerie procured cheaply or through donations.
Lee describes Oh's vital signs as so unstable that a few times during the grueling operation, he thought the defector would die on the surgical table.
South Korea's Ministry of Defense confirmed to CNN more than 40 bullets were fired at the defector from pistols and an AK-47 during his escape.
The video, filmed as the defector drove an army truck through the demilitarized zone and then abandoned the vehicle, gives a dramatic insight into his escape.
Humanitarian support for the defector group from the U.S. is "long overdue and quite logical," said Ivan Briscoe, Latin America director for the International Crisis Group.
Joseph Kim, a North Korean defector and refugee to the US, voted in the US election for the first time on Super Tuesday in Dallas, Texas.
Mikhail Butkov, another K.G.B. defector, was imprisoned for three years for creating a fake business school and defrauding would-be students out of 1.5 million pounds.
The bureau's information about the defector had come from infiltrators of the Communist Party of the United States, and the bureau worried about their possible exposure.
One is from a defector, whom the lawyers code-named Ulysses, who chronicled the contemptuous remarks about Ms. Colvin made by the intelligence officer, Maj. Gen.
Undaunted, Caesar and a fellow defector, a relative who identified himself as Sami, have returned to make a fresh appeal to a new commander in chief.
The plant is the country's "main weapons production base," a defector who worked in North Korea's secretive munitions industry told South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper in 2010.
It is expected the latest, high-profile defector could prove a rich trove of knowledge about the workings of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's secretive regime.
Last year, a high-level defector told CNN that Kim was taking an increasingly brutal approach to the elite, executing them when they fell out of favor.
The paper cited information from a North Korean defector, formerly in the regime's air force, who claimed Pyongyang had been working on the technology since the 1990s.
The broadcasts chiefly consist of K-pop music, defector interviews and radio shows lampooning North Korean leaders, targeting North Korean soldiers and residents in the border areas.
Jeff Flake (R-AZ), also seen as a relative moderate and potential defector from AHCA, said, "I don't know," when asked whether McConnell's timetable was too fast.
What happened: According to South Korea's defense ministry, South Korean soldiers heard gunshots and then found the defector 50 meters south of the border village of Panmunjom.
North Korean defector and former army officer Kang Ri Hyuk told CNN Wednesday that conditions in his home country were "brutal" before he left four years ago.
As the conference begins, Kanter stands in the back, watching as a young North Korean defector tells her story in front of a packed, teary-eyed audience.
People working for defector-led nongovernmental organizations in South Korea receive text messages from their North Korean contacts with specific requests for foreign TV shows and movies.
A North Korean defector who was shot fleeing the country Monday is struggling to recover due to the "enormous number" of parasites in his intestines, doctors say.
Snapshot: Above, the so-called defector beauties from North Korea in an episode of a South Korean TV show about reunification that has attracted a loyal audience.
He saluted the courage of Seong Ho Ji, a defector who lost his legs but still managed to escape to South Korea with most of his family.
South Korean authorities are investigating the possibility that a North Korean defector who fled to Seoul and became a reality-TV star has been kidnapped by Pyongyang.
"We thought we could trust our president Juan Guiado to lead this fight for freedom," said Williams Cancino, a defector from the Venezuelan special police in Caracas.
"A solar panel gives you 'free' power once it is installed," said Kim Young Hui, a defector and an economist at the South's state-run Korea Development Bank.
Chris Leslie, a Labour defector, has pooh-poohed the idea of jumping into bed with the Lib Dems, saying they are still tainted by their time in coalition.
It stoked division and mistrust in the Atlantic alliance -- not least through sponsoring the NSA defector Edward Snowden -- and within Western countries (notably in the US election campaign).
The North Korean defector was shot and wounded by his fellow soldiers as he dashed into the South Korean side of the Joint Security Area (JSA) last week.
A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's "desperate" dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies.
Thae Yong Ho is the most high profile North Korean defector in two decades, meaning he is able to give a rare insight into the secretive, authoritarian regime.
Y. H. Kim, another defector turned rights advocate, said the expulsion of the two was the latest in what he said were government efforts to "trample" on defectors.
By firing across the DMZ at the defector, North Korean soldiers violated the Korean War armistice, said the UN Command, which oversees the 64-year-old ceasefire agreement.
North Korean defector and former army officer Kang Ri Hyuk told CNN last week that conditions in his home country were "brutal" before he left four years ago.
SEOUL (Reuters) - For an hour each day, Kim Chung-seong, a defector from North Korea and a Christian missionary, takes to the microphone in a small Seoul studio.
In this video op-ed, a North Korean defector, Yeonmi Park, urges the United States to put pressure on Kim Jong-un to end his human rights abuses.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that Republicans were weighing amendments to the tax treatment of "pass-through" businesses to win over the lone defector so far, Sen.
"I am a defector from this fake caliphate, and lots of men around me have done the same thing," Sami Elabi told a Quebec news agency this week.
The defector is in a South Korean hospital, but doctors said last week he is struggling to recover due to the "enormous number" of parasites in his intestines.
Last year, he used the address to announce the second US-North Korea summit and in 2018 Trump invited a North Korean defector as one of his guests.
The rapid progress of the last few weeks has been attributed to the new lineup of Russian backed-forces, an army defector and two senior opposition sources conceded.
Defector groups continued the campaign, sending, along with the flyers, $1 bills, mini radios, instant food such ramen noodles and USB sticks containing South Korean dramas and news.
Last year he used the address to announce the second US-North Korea summit and in 2018 Trump invited a North Korean defector as one of his guests.
In reality, Mr. Kim is still a long way from becoming a friend of Mr. Trump, despite the assertions last week by Mr. Thae, the North Korean defector.
But in such a highly politicized case that has the potential to change history, a Russian defector will be met with enormous skepticism, even inside the counterintelligence world.
Kang Mi-jin, a defector who monitors the economy for the Seoul-based website Daily NK, said she had counted more than 10 domestic brands of instant noodles.
One defector from the group, who asked not to be named for security reasons, told VICE News that many members join simply because they have no other option.
A North Korean defector later said she had met Kim in the United States and that he had told church gatherings he was a missionary helping North Koreans.
Mr. Rajapaksa was defeated a year ago by Maithripala Sirisena, a defector from Mr. Rajapaksa's party who promised to clean up the government and investigate allegations of war crimes.
Kang Chol-hwan, a North Korean defector and leader of a human rights organization, told the Wall Street Journal that the recent hack seems to come from North Korea.
The defector, identified only by his family name of Oh, was shot at least four times by his former comrades during his daring escape into South Korea last week.
"The North will choose and send verified people from its core class," said Kim Kwang-jin, a North Korean defector and researcher at the Institute for National Security Strategy.
A defector from the North previously told Reuters that Kim was a Christian pastor who had worked in China and the US and sent medical aid into the North.
For this month's Mass Games, elementary, middle and high school practiced from early morning until late at night, the defector-run website Daily NK said citing an unnamed source.
Yeonmi Park is a 23-year-old North Korean defector and human rights activist, born and raised in North Korea before escaping to China at the age of 13.
In March, a North Korean defector filled balloons with information about the murder of Kim Jong Un's half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, before floating them into the rogue state.
President Donald Trump's first State of the Union speech concluded with a powerful story about a North Korean defector who was tortured and starved by that country's brutal government.
In a surprise moment, he singled out a North Korea defector in the crowd, Ji Seong-ho, as an example of what he called the reclusive country's brutal nature.
Han told reporters he had doubts about what the defector was claiming, asking how the Kuomintang lost the last presidential election in 2016 if China really was swaying elections.
Mr. Philippe, 46, is a Republican defector and one-time top lieutenant to Alain Juppé, a former prime minister who came in second in his party's primary last year.
This was true for Kim Jeong-ah, another defector who never met Han, although the two women attended a compulsory re-education center near Seoul at the same time.
Pyongyang has also demanded the return of Kim Ryen-hi, a North Korean defector in the South who has said she made a mistake and wants to go back.
"I am just flabbergasted," wrote Joo Sung-ha, a defector-turned-journalist in Seoul​, referring to the South's refusal to believe the two North Koreans' stated intention to defect.
Korean media reports that at her three-month defector orientation meeting, she was classified as "not to be concerned," meaning authorities there did not fear her returning to Pyongyang.
"Personally I think she looked very relaxed during her visit to South Korea," said Kang Mi-jin, a North Korean defector who works at the Seoul-based Daily NK website.
The arrival of the North Korean defector has brought Lee a new round of criticism for appearing to seek attention, including from one lawmaker, a charge he says is unfounded.
Those comments indicate she wants to do more than just expel Russian diplomats, as happened after the poisoning of the Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, also on British soil.
Attempted assassination of Park Sang-hak For over seven years, defector Park Sang-hak has sent balloons carrying leaflets criticizing the North Korean regime over the border from South Korea.
Tearful North Korean waitresses: Our 'defector' colleagues were tricked Twelve young North Korean women who worked at the restaurant and a male restaurant manager arrived in the South Korean capital.
And in the video, in addition to the shots fired in the JSA, a North Korean soldier pursuing the defector actually crosses in to the South, which is another violation.
A defector from the Venezuelan border patrol told CNN that it was once his task to pick out trucks carrying traffickers' cocaine and ensure they passed through the border swiftly.
Data compiled by Daily NK, a defector-run website, showed rice prices have dropped about 15% since November, suggesting the shortages may not be as bad as some people think.
Beyond those factors, Defector will be your standard top-tier narrative VR game, coming in around the same length as Wilson's Heart (around eight hours), but with more re-playability.
"We've not got around to discussing that yet," Chen Yunying, a senior defector from self-ruled Taiwan who is married to Justin Yifu Lin, the World Bank's former chief economist.
Ninety percent of those were from corrupt defector aid groups that pretended to help rescue defectors but instead only pocketed aid money raised in the United States and South Korea.
The speech was packed with made-for-TV moments, including a North Korean defector who hoisted his crutches in the air and young boy who plants flags on veterans' graves.
In Britain a public inquiry into the murder in 22008 of Alexander Litvinenko, a KGB defector, found that Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, had "probably" approved the killing following a feud.
Seoul (CNN)A North Korean defector known for her appearances on South Korean reality TV has returned to her former country and denounced the "propaganda" she once helped to produce.
One of the things we know from defector testimony, for example, is that North Korea has built a network of operational bases in foreign countries where they execute cyber operations.
Propaganda tools According to fellow defector Robert Jenkins, Dresnok eventually married a woman from Romania who said she was tricked into traveling to Pyongyang and was not allowed to leave.
His two top commanders—Semyon Timoshenko and Giorgy Zhukov—deliver their assessment, based on the testimony of a German defector in the frontier district, that an invasion is truly imminent.
We read that Rudolf Nureyev, the famous Soviet defector, literally danced himself away from the hired goons who came to take him back to the USSR and kill his career.
Syria's government and President Bashar al-Assad routinely deny using torture or extrajudicial killings and have dismissed the accusations of the defector who smuggled out the images as a fabrication.
North Korean soldiers attempting to catch a defector making a break across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on November 13 fired into South Korea, while one soldier even crossed the border.
The C.I.A.'s resettlement program has clear rules that if a defector wants to return home, there is no legal basis for the United States to force him to stay.
"The people I talked to in the North are thirsty for outside news — asking as many questions of me as I do of them," said Ms. Kang, herself a defector.
On Wednesday, a Syrian defector testifying before the US Senate Foreign Relations begged Washington to take action to protect civilians rather than to give more money to alleviate their suffering.
A defector from the North previously told Reuters that Kim was a Christian pastor who had worked in China and the United States and sent medical aid into the North.
A United States Army medical helicopter evacuated the defector to a South Korean hospital, where he has gone through a series of surgeries to treat at least five gunshot wounds.
Another defector, Lee Hyeon-seo, said that the news media should focus on the impoverished people of North Korea struggling to survive a harsh winter, and not on the Olympics.
They eventually recovered from what doctors said was a nerve agent similar to the poison used against GRU defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England, in 2018.
Would Emmanuel Macron, a thirty-eight-year-old defector from Hollande's cabinet, running as an independent, siphon off a considerable number of votes from whoever ends up representing the left?
Warmbier and his wife were among President Trump and the first lady's guests at Trump's State of the Union address last week, along with North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho.
Two years later, a Syrian army defector codenamed Caesar released over 28,000 photographs showing the dead bodies of bruised and battered prisoners with a number on each of the corpses.
He met Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, after the Russian President's spies were accused of attempting to kill a Russian defector and his daughter in Britain with a nerve agent.
In 1977, a Soviet defector told Mr. Platt that one of his classmates from the K.G.B.'s training institute was working under diplomatic cover at the Soviet Embassy in Washington.
Captain Jean Marchena, a Venezuelan defector formerly stationed with the army in Caracas, said he other defectors made the initial report against Guaidó's representatives, Barrerra and Rojas, with Colombian police.
After debating, then placating a group of anti-abortion holdouts, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi eventually delivered -- without a single GOP defector -- a 219-212 vote to approve the Senate bill.
But Cho, the defector, said the reports were "far from reality" as most workers would not even get a safety helmet, and labour conditions were so hostile that many ran away.
In 2014, CNN was given a copy of a report that found "direct evidence" of "systematic torture and killing" by the Syrian government, based on photographs leaked by a Syrian defector.
In an interview on Tuesday, North Korean defector Thae Yong Ho told CNN affiliate YTN that he wasn't surprised by the news, adding that Kim Jong Un could also kill him.
"A defector told me there was a rumor the oldest son of Kim Jong Il had said critical words about North Korea and could be a cause of (reform)," he said.
Kang Chun-hyok, a North Korean defector turned rapper and artist, stands in front of three of his pieces on exhibit at his Ants Gallery in Seoul, South Korea, last week.
A source close to the president said Ferrand, who was an early defector to Macron from the Socialist party and ran his presidential campaign, would instead lead the LREM parliamentary group.
Russell's screen presence is magnetic from the very first scene, which shows her seducing a government official in a bar to gain access to information he has about a Soviet defector.
WASHINGTON – The highest-level North Korean defector in two decades says America should bring change peacefully by challenging the totalitarian regime&aposs grip on information rather than resorting to military action.
" As a vocal defector of religion popular amongst celebrities in Hollywood, Haggis' legal team believe it is somehow involved adding that it has "been attacking him for years with false accusations.
This was in part due to a policy of limiting the fuel load on standby aircraft after defector Victor Belenko flew his MiG-2200 all the way to Japan in 2007.
Unlike Sony's Blood & Truth, a similar VR shooting simulator that puts players on rails like a Time Crisis arcade game, Defector lets you walk around environments using the Oculus Touch thumbsticks.
North Korea A North Korea defector says Kim Jong Un's going to take advantage of political upheaval in the US and South Korea to develop nukes by the end of 2017.
More than three million harbor intestinal worms, like those found in a recent military defector, which siphon off essential nutrients and are particularly dangerous in children, stunting growth and cognitive development.
The first defector, who uses a clandestine money channel, typically works with middlemen who wire money to banks in China, where it is collected by agents and carried across the border.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un likes to keep the ruling elite loyal with sweeteners says Kim Kwang Jin, a North Korea defector who helped finance illicit imports into North Korea.
Lee operated on Oh again two days later for more than three hours, and within days of that, the defector began a fast-paced recovery that has surprised even his doctors.
On Monday, a coalition of eight defector, human rights and lawyers' organizations said they were opposed to any more inter-Korean summits that fail to address human rights in the North.
The backdrop: Two days after Theresa May laid out consequences for the attempted murder of one Russian defector, ex-spy Sergei Skripal, British police are treating another suspicious death as murder.
After she arrived in Seoul last year, Ko met a fellow defector who had listened to the show while inside the North last year and has since fled to the South.
The defector, identified by a surgeon as a 24-year-old with the family name Oh, was flown by a U.S. military helicopter to a hospital in Suwon, south of Seoul.
The video does not show the moment the defector is hit, but he is seen lying in a pile of brush next to a concrete wall in a later edited clip.
"I can see the difference since 'Now on My Way' went on the air," said the defector Kwon Seol-kyung, a musician who leads the all-North Korean Pyongyang Art Troupe.
Uriminzokkiri, a North Korean government-run website, carried an article attacking Jung Gwang-il, a North Korean defector who leads No Chain, a North Korean human rights activist group in Seoul.
"We answered their call to fight for liberty," said one defector, who asked for his name not to be published because Colombian authorities had asked him not to talk to media.
"They use the term Great Powers, never specifying who those powers are," said Mr. Biondo, who has recently written a book, "Supernova: How Five Star Was Killed," with another party defector.
The defector, whose full name is still not publicly known, risked his life by speeding across the Demilitarized Zone in a jeep, then dashing across the heavily guarded border at Panmunjon.
The defector got out and dashed for life across the line, while four North Korean soldiers, one of them lying on the ground, unleashed a hail of bullets to stop him.
But in the early 1990s, a group of computer experts returned from China with the idea of using the web to take secrets and attack government enemies, according to one defector.
In one instance, a defector in her 20s testified her teacher said during class that one of the students must have "better stamina for sexual intercourse" because she had darker skin.
Would-Be Chinese Defector Details Covert Campaigns in Hong Kong and Taiwan: The claims by an asylum seeker in Australia couldn't be independently verified, but Western officials are treating them seriously.
Sirisena told a party gathering later on Tuesday that he would not allow any defector to be sworn in as a minister in Wickremesinghe's cabinet, which is yet to be appointed.
But Cho, the defector, said the reports were "far from reality" as most workers would not even get a safety helmet, and labor conditions were so hostile that many ran away.
That was the case when Trump recognized a North Korean defector during his State of the Union address in January and hosted a group of North Korean escapees in the Oval Office.
In an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, the defector, code-named "Caesar," urged US President Donald Trump to stop what he calls the "criminality" taking place in Syria's government-run prisons.
Related: We Spoke to a North Korean Defector Who Escaped Terrible Working Conditions Overseas But whether this is a good or a bad thing for Mexico depends on who you talk to.
A week before the opening ceremony, Kang Chun-hyok, a North Korean defector turned artist and rapper, told BuzzFeed News that he thought the unified teams were sort of a PR stunt.
Think about it: if your neighbor is a defector, and you see what a sweet deal they are getting by accepting help but never offering it, you might want to copy them.
The exercise takes place almost exactly one year after North Korean troops shelled South Korean territory and only days after South Korea welcomed the highest-ranking North Korean official defector in decades.
The everyday life of Fidel's various wives, lovers, and siblings remained invisible, except for some press on his defector daughter Alina, who lives in Miami and hates her father beyond his death.
The defector, who does not seek a profit, said he has financed several grocery stores with investments of 24,2550 to 22014,21 yuan ($114.90003,2114.9000 to $21,26.6680) in rural towns, and more in Pyongyang.
Child prodigies are sought from a young age and recruited, according to Kim Heung-kwang, a North Korean defector who worked as a computer science professor in Pyongyang before escaping in 2004.
He is the highest-ranking North Korean defector in two decades and is making his first visit to Washington, D.C., as President Trump prepares to depart on his first trip to Asia.
The defector, Boris Karpichkov, said that Christopher Steele, author of a now-famous dossier alleging that the Kremlin held compromising information on President Trump, was among the other names targeted for assassination.
Trump hosted various guests at the event in an effort to push his policies, including a defector from North Korea and the parents of two victims of international criminal gang MS-13.
But it was also here that defector Oh Chong Song was shot in November as he fled south by fellow North Korean soldiers, who violated the armistice by firing into the DMZ.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Chinese authorities have sent the wife of a North Korean defector back to the hermit state, despite an emotional plea from her husband to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
And the United States, Canada and other European nations expelled Russian diplomats in solidarity with Britain over the poisoning of a Russian defector in London, enhancing hopes that old alliances will endure.
The defector had attempted to reach the border in a jeep, but ran once the vehicle became stuck in a ditch, and was shot in his buttocks, back, shoulder, armpit and knee.
In Hansol Jung's play, a North Korean defector and a South Korean father separated from his family, try to connect, first online and then, with emotions rather than emojis, in real life.
If confirmed, the report could add to problems between the European Union and Moscow, which are already at odds over the apparent murder attempt against a Russian defector in Britain last year.
When he heard that a confidant had flipped from the Black Stones to the rival Gangster Disciples, he rounded up some friends and confronted the defector at a high school football game.
Some privacy advocates have lionized Mr. Snowden as a whistle-blower, while his opponents and government officials have cast him as a defector, particularly in light of his seeking asylum in Russia.
Green led the launch of Against Violent Extremism, the first online network of former violent extremists and survivors of terrorism, and is working on building an even larger online library of defector testimonies.
A book published in 1986 by Vladimir Rezun, a GRU defector, described a film shown to new spooks; it depicted a traitorous officer, lashed to a stretcher, being fed into a crematorium alive.
Even Homeworld defector Peridot, who's initially as bigoted and close-minded as anyone on her planet (and our own), says as much to her leader's face after spending time with the Crystal Gems.
The report quotes a defector who worked for Bureau 38 as saying that while he was posted to China, he often brokered meetings between local organised criminals and North Korean diplomats in Africa.
Ri, a high-profile North Korean defector, spent years working for what is essentially a slush fund for one of the most notorious regimes on the planet, Kim Jong Un and his compatriots.
On Thursday Sky News announced that tens of thousands of documents revealing the personal details of ISIS (also referred to as the IS and Daesh) members were given to them by a defector.
It was a rare public speech by a North Korean defector in China, which treats defectors as illegal immigrants and returns them to North Korea, where they can face prison or even execution.
A defector who had traded at one of the markets told Korean media in 2016 every seller paid around 2,000 North Korean won (around $2) per day in unofficial "taxes" to local officials.
"Even though he was not trained as a professional translator, he was picked up because of his outstanding English proficiency," a defector who used to be a North Korean diplomat told Chosun Ilbo.
The defector is in custody and is likely being questioned as authorities investigate the reasons behind his defection, and seek other information about his life in one of the world's most reclusive states.
Last June, a senior North Korean defector named Ri Jong Ho told Japan's Kyodo News agency that North Korea secretly buys significant amounts of oil products from Russia via brokers based in Singapore.
She is a talbukja — a defector to South Korea from the North — and what she longs for is to see her hometown again and to be able to occasionally cross the Demilitarized Zone.
Han Seo-hee, 35, a North Korean defector to the South, who was picked to be a cheerleader 16 years ago, said squad members were drawn from various performance troupes around the capital.
Mr. Fraser's Subcommittee on International Organizations, pursuing information from a Korean defector, documented a vast plot, dating to 21940, that bestowed cash, gifts, campaign contributions, honorary degrees and other favors on American officials.
"For the North Korean regime, there is no big incentive in reminding its people that the South lives well enough to host an Olympics," said Lee Min-bok, a defector from North Korea.
A 258-page document detailed information received by a defector from the Soviet Union, Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, describing the K.G.B.'s encounters with Oswald when he attempted to defect to Russia in 1959.
He found out his brother Saad died in regime custody; an acquaintance recognized him among more than 28,000 photos of bodies, smuggled out of the country by a Syrian army defector codenamed Caesar.
" Later that day, according to a Syrian defector, a military intelligence officer who had ordered the surveillance and shelling of journalists expressed grim satisfaction: "Marie Colvin was a dog and now she's dead.
Kang Mi-jin, a North Korean defector-turned-journalist in Seoul who has been investigating the case, said Ms. Han could have withdrawn $4,500 that she had originally deposited to secure the apartment.
A coalition of defector groups issued a joint statement criticizing the decision, saying the men should have been tried in the South because they would likely face torture, and possibly execution back home.
General Walter Krivitsky, a defector who had once directed Soviet military intelligence in Western Europe and whose revelations about Stalinist repression had made headlines, was found dead in a Washington, D.C., hotel room.
Operation MUREN failed to discredit Brzezinski, yet the Soviets persisted with "active measures" to influence American politics until the Cold War's end, according to archives smuggled out by Vasili Mitrokhin, a K.G.B. defector.
A North Korean woman, a defector now living in Seoul, and a man whose wife and children have moved to the United States examine the possibilities for connection in their newly solitary lives.
Kang Cheol-hwan, a defector and founder of the North Korea Strategy Centre in Seoul, said Hong went so far as to travel to Libya to research the aftermath of Muammar Gaddafi's ouster.
North Korea has been working for years to develop the ability to disrupt or destroy computer systems that control public services such as telecommunications and other utilities, according to a defector from the North.
Last month, the New York Times reported that American spies had scrambled to protect a Russian defector after a suspected assassin had approached his house and traveled to a city where his relatives lived.
Oslo, Norway (CNN)Stealthy helicopter drones have been delivering SD cards and flash drives to North Korean residents hungry for entertainment and information from the outside, a North Korean defector and activist said Wednesday.
A North Korean defector told a congressional hearing that any pre-emptive U.S. military strike against the rogue regime would trigger automatic retaliation, with the communist dictatorship unleashing artillery and missiles on South Korea.
"If I appeared in ordinary media outlets, I'd be edited," said North Korean defector Eunhee Park, who wants to teach South Koreans about North Korea with the hope of reunifying the countries one day.
But Defector, a new Oculus Rift exclusive from Wilson's Heart maker Twisted Pixel, is here to remind us that there's still plenty of exhilarating, over-the-top concepts VR has yet to adequately explore.
Twisted Pixel is including branching storylines in Defector, allowing players to tackle any given situation with branching paths that, while they won't affect the greater narrative, do drastically change the outcome of individual missions.
One defector living in South Korea uses a clandestine funding channel to send hundreds of thousands of dollars to help dozens of North Koreans open small businesses, such as noodle shops and grocery stores.
A high-ranking defector warned Wednesday that North Koreans stationed near the border with South Korea have their fingers on the trigger ready to fire at Seoul should the United States take military action.
Eckart Floether, a Rajneesh defector, says that he remembers Karuna because it was she, he claims, who tried to dissuade him from leaving the Bhagwan's ashram in Pune (Poona), India, a few years ago.
"I was informed that he was badly shot by North Koreans," Lee said, reliving the complex chain of events that brought North Korean defector Oh Chong Song to his trauma unit on November 13.
The lone Republican defector was Trey Gowdy, who voted "present" on the effort to reject the motion, declining to side with either party on the matter, according to three sources with knowledge of situation.
A Syrian military defector using the pseudonym Caesar wears a blue hoodie to conceal his identity while testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to discuss the government under Bashar Assad on Wednesday.
Kim Kwang-jin, a defector who worked in Singapore for a bank affiliated with North Korea, says his firm met its quota by running reinsurance scams on factory fires, transportation accidents and other disasters.
"My dad often received bribes," said one 28-year-old defector who asked to be identified only by her surname, Kang, because when she moved out in late 2010 she left her father behind.
The defector, identified as Wang "William" Liqiang, is reported to have provided the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, or ASIO, with the identities of China's senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong, the paper said.
South Korean guards fired about 20 warning shots at North Korean troops near the border presumably searching for the defector about half an hour later, a defense ministry official in the South told Reuters.
The arrests "have become more intense recently," said Ji Seong-ho, a defector and President of Now Action and Unity for Human Rights (NAUH), a group working to improve human rights conditions in North Korea.
North Korean defector: Kim will lose power within three years Tensions have ratcheted up on the divided Korean Peninsula this year as Pyongyang has made a series of assertions about developments in its military capability.
MCCAIN, NORTH KOREA IN WAR OF WORDS OVER &aposCRAZY FAT KID&apos CRACK "It was something that you can't dare to look at with your eyes wide open," a defector recently told South Korean officials.
The defector, Ling Wancheng, is the brother of Ling Jihua, the former chief of staff to President Hu Jintao who was formally detained on suspicion of "serious violations" of Communist party rules in December 2014.
One such young defector, Seoul-based activist Ji Seong-ho, has been sending funds of $300 to $13 at a time for North Koreans to open food stalls and crop-lending businesses in rural areas.
Much of what was previously known about conditions in regime prisons came from a horde of more than 50,000 photographs depicting dead and abused prisoners that were smuggled out by a government defector in 2013.
Zaman Al-Wasl, a newspaper supportive of forces fighting against both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops and terror groups such as ISIS, published 122 pages of documents it said came from an ISIS defector.
Russia is, after all, a country that stripped the markings from its soldiers' uniforms in order to invade Ukraine while lying about it, and assassinated a defector in London by putting polonium in his tea.
It appears to be specifically tasked with irregular operations directed at Europe, including a failed coup in Montenegro and the attempted poisonings of an arms dealer in Bulgaria and a GRU defector in Salisbury, England.
German authorities did not mention how it had obtained the documents, but Sky News said they had been provided by an IS defector who stole a memory stick containing them from IS's internal security chief.
A Chinese defector, named as Wang "William" Liqiang by Australian media, gave a sworn statement to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, or ASIO, about Beijing's efforts to influence politics in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia.
But critics say the games white-wash North Korea's human rights record, and testimonies collected by the defector-run website Daily NK have described months of harsh training for school children involved in past events.
But between 2002 and 2015, he traveled to South Korea with his Chinese passport and turned himself in to the authorities in South Korea three times, asking to be recognized as a North Korean defector.
His lawyer, Jang Kyung-uk, said that North Korea's own news report proved Mr. Kim's identity as a defector and that his Chinese citizenship should be irrelevant in deciding his case because it was fake.
The group prepared 150,20163 leaflets, 1,000 $1 bills and 500 booklets authored by another defector on South Korea's dramatic rise from the ashes of the 1950-53 Korean War, said its leader Park Sang-haak.
South Korea: A former North Korean diplomat has become the first defector to run for South Korea's Parliament, saying he was motivated by Seoul's forced repatriation of two North Korean fishermen who wanted to defect.
From the families who lost loved ones to the MS-13 gang to Otto Warmbier's parents to the North Korean defector and his crutches, the visuals -- and the stories they told -- were haunting and memorable.
On Sunday, the Unification Ministry, a South Korean government agency in charge of North Korea policies, said that it planned to increase the cash bonus for a defector with such information to $2418,270 from $217,000.
Cleverly, Trump also noted the presence in the audience of a North Korean defector and the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died last June after being detained by North Korean officials.
"His biggest worry is that sanctions are squeezing the money flow for the elites, testing their loyalty," said Joo Sung-ha, a North Korean defector who monitors the North as a journalist based in Seoul.
Despite the drought and international sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear program, the cost of corn and rice has remained relatively stable, according to a Reuters analysis of market data collected by the defector-run Daily NK website.
Jilin, China (CNN)Wearing big black headphones and sitting on a blue floral bedspread, North Korean defector Lee Yumi was video chatting with yet another stranger online, dark rings shading the pale skin under her eyes.
One veteran journalist at the Chosun Ilbo, a major South Korean newspaper, was last month denied access by the South Korean government to cover a round of negotiations with North Korea because he was a defector.
Another North Korean defector who demonstrated in Seoul says that, while in the North, he had read about mass protests in South Korea out of curiosity, yet had never seen them as relevant to his situation.
Prices of petrol and diesel have spiked, but the cost of foods likes corn and rice have remained relatively stable, according to a Reuters analysis of market data collected by the defector-run Daily NK website.
"By around 2010, it seemed they were capable of manufacturing various types of CNC machines," said Kim Heung-gwang, a North Korean defector who taught at Pyongyang's Hamhung Computer Technology University before defecting to South Korea.
The defector said that as part of the 193th Storm Corps, he stole across the border into South Korea unnoticed, carrying both traditional weapons and nerve agents in what he called "suicide missions" to capture foreigners.
Meanwhile, in South Korea, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said it had awarded its own JSA soldiers - three South Korean and three U.S. soldiers - the Army Commendation medal in recognition for their efforts in rescuing the defector.
North Korea has worked for years to develop the ability to disrupt or destroy computer systems that control public services such as telecommunications and other utilities, according to a North Korean defector familiar with the effort.
U.S. intelligence agencies interrogating the brother of a disgraced Communist official believe he is the most valuable Chinese defector to flee to America, according to two people familiar with some of the intelligence he has provided.
Until now, the most valuable Chinese defector to the US was widely believed to be Yu Qiangsheng, spymaster from China's Ministry of State Security and son of senior party members, who fled to America in 1985.
Despite the drought and international sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear programme, the cost of corn and rice has remained relatively stable, according to a Reuters analysis of market data collected by the defector-run Daily NK website.
In 2010, after the arrest and extradition of 10 suspected Russian agents from America, an unnamed Russian official told a respected Moscow newspaper a contract killer had been sent to assassinate the defector who betrayed them.
His daughter won a place at a top music school thanks to her father's patronage, according to Jang Jin-sung, a North Korean defector who left in 2004 but studied alongside So's daughter as a student.
Meanwhile, in South Korea, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said it had awarded its own JSA soldiers - three South Korean and three U.S. soliders - the Army Commendation medal in recognition for their efforts in rescuing the defector.
"As South and North Korea have promoted this 'mood for peace,' the defectors and North Korean human rights activist groups feel excluded," said Kim Tae-hee, a defector who heads the Coalition for North Korean Refugees.
"He was never given a chance to exercise his right to defend himself, vilified as a fake defector," the presiding judge at the Seoul Central District Court, Kim Tae-up, said in a ruling on Thursday.
As for last week's defector, when he woke up from surgery this week, he is reported to have asked to listen to South Korean songs and watch American movies — a small taste of freedom long denied.
According to the footage, the defector sped a drab, olive-colored military jeep along a tree-lined road and into the Joint Security Area after crossing a North Korean landmark known as the 72-Hour Bridge.
The latest allegations came a day after media reported that a Chinese defector, who said he was an intelligence operative, told ASIO how China had funded and conducted political interference in Taiwan, Australia and Hong Kong.
Han was then sold to her Korean-Chinese husband who lived in China, according to Kim Yong-hwa, a defector activist who has known Han for a decade and who helped bring her to South Korea.
Another defector who said she became a trader at age 14 to make a living said she had struggled to keep men from groping her breasts and buttocks while traveling to markets by buses and trains.
South Korean soldiers later fired 20 warning shots at North Korean border guards who were searching for the defector, which was followed 40 minutes later by gunfire in the North, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Police in Seoul, where Lim lived after she defected, are now scouring her financial records, bank accounts, and phone records to find out if the defector actually moved back to North Korea of her own accord.
Park is in London to speak at the screening of Little Pyongyang, a stylized new documentary following North Korean defector, Joong-wha Choi, as he struggles to adapt to everyday British life in a south London suburb.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cubans are getting their best look in years at baseball's World Series, watching the games on state TV broadcasts a mere 24 hours after the actual event, despite each team featuring a star Cuban defector.
The bill is named to honor the Syrian defector and forensic photographer, known by the pseudonym "Caesar," who risked his life to smuggle out 55,000 photos of prisoners who were tortured to death by the Syrian regime.
Muhammad Sahimi, a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California who studies Iranian nuclear and political development, told me that a defector from Iran's nuclear program received a doctorate from MIT in mechanical engineering.
Late leader Kim Jong Il built patronage with gifts and around 2001, he gave two of his most-trusted aides in the nuclear department a large American van each as a present, according to Jang, the defector.
"It's to give the message that 'We could be as rich if we develop the market economy'," Ahn Chan-il, a North Korean defector who now runs a Seoul-based think-tank, said of the film's message.
A North Korean defector on Monday made a bold dash through gunfire across a stretch of the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea: The Joint Security Area in the so-called truce village of Panmunjom.
"To be living as a North Korean defector in America is the biggest treason to the country," said Andrew Hong, executive director of the group Emancipate North Koreans, a nonprofit that assists defectors in the Chicago area.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean guards fired around 20 warning shots at North Korean troops searching for a defector who fled across the heavily militarized border between the two countries on Thursday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
"Our girls lived as if they were in prison," said Kim Tae-san, a North Korean defector who worked in the Czech Republic from 2000 to 2002 supervising 200 young North Korean women in a shoe factory.
Mr. Essex, chief executive of Tribeca Enterprises, the firm behind the Tribeca Film Festival, is a relatively recent defector from the ad world, where he was a co-founder and the chief executive of the agency Droga5.
"They hanged people in crowded places like markets and left the bodies there for hours to instill fear among the people," said Oh Se-hyek, a North Korean defector who conducted the interviews for the mapping project.
The speech, which was attended by both the parents of Otto Warmbier, Cindy and Fred, and North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho, saw Trump dismiss recent diplomatic efforts, casting the threat posed by Pyongyang as ever present.
Abdul Rahim, an army defector, also said reinforcements and weapons were moving to the YPG from the mainly-Arab populated city of Manbij, south of rebel controlled Jarablus and west of the Euphrates, across government controlled territory.
North Korean defector predicts that the elite will turn against leader Kim Jong Un North Korean defector predicts that the elite will turn against leader Kim Jong Un One of the most high-profile defectors from North Korea has spoken to foreign media for the first time, revealing that Pyongyang's elite are turning against leader Kim Jong Un. Thae Yong Ho also predicted that reunification with South Korea could happen within five years, and warned U.S. President Donald Trump about the dangers of making a deal with the current regime over nuclear weapons.
Ri Yong Guk, a North Korean defector who once served on the late Kim Jong Il's security detail, wrote in a 2013 memoir that the former North Korean despot had up to six different layers of security guards.
North Korea has not identified Thae as a defector but in August, its state media accused an unidentified senior diplomat who defected from his post in Britain of fleeing to escape punishment for various crimes including child rape.
Among the targets struck were two Syrian army brigades where Lebanon's Hezbollah group is embedded alongside a rocket depot close to its bases near the border with Lebanon, another Syrian army defector in touch with military personnel said.
"I strongly believe in the use of soft power before taking any military action," said Thae, the most senior North Korean defector since the nation&aposs ambassador to Egypt fled and resettled in the United States in 1997.
U.S. Department of Agriculture satellite images suggest North Korea's crop yields will be similar to last year, said Kim Young-hui, a North Korean defector and a specialist in the country's economy at Korea Finance Corp in Seoul.
In a 2017 report based on interviews with 20 elite defectors, the North Korea Strategy Centre, a defector-run think tank in Seoul, said more than 70 officials have been executed since Kim took power in late 2011.
Park Sang-hak, a defector who represents an association of several dozen such groups, is so much in demand that he insists on being interviewed in his car, while his driver takes on Seoul's traffic at breakneck speed.
As the Vietnamese exercised power in the capital of Phnom Penh through Hun Sen, a one-eyed Khmer Rouge defector, the remaining Khmer Rouge commanders retired to the mountains, where they grew fat off illegal mining and logging.
Defector Timothy Kang told CNN last year many North Koreans blame themselves for failing to succeed in the South and -- seeing the gaps between their own lives and those depicted in the country's glitzy media -- suffer from depression.
"They are shelling checkpoints on the way to Bab al-Hawa in an effort to control the northern border area with Turkey," said ex-general Ahmed al-Hamadi, a Syrian army defector with the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
During the trip, I visited the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which divides the Korean Peninsula into North and South, and debriefed the recent North Korean defector Thae Yong Ho who provided insights into how many North Koreans view KJU.
Citing a lack of financial backing, as well as recent clashes between police and groups trying to send leaflets into North Korea, Kim said she feels the government is undermining the work of human rights and defector NGOs.
The United States and other nations should sponsor information campaigns to sustain pressure for change within North Korea, with more funding and training for defector-led organizations that create radio and video programs for distribution inside the country.
As South Korea and the United States focus on diplomacy with North Korea, rights and defector groups in the South have said they are struggling to raise money and are facing pressure to avoid criticism of North Korea.
A Chinese defector in Australia who claims to have been directly involved with Chinese influence activities in Taiwan recently claimed that Beijing had given Mr. Han millions of dollars to help him and the Kuomintang win in 2018.
"If you are an ordinary North Korean today, and if you don't make money through markets, you are likely to die of hunger," said Kim Nam-chol, 46, a defector from Hoeryong, a town near the Chinese border.
The defector, identified as Wang "William" Liqiang by Nine network newspapers, is reported to have provided the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, or ASIO, with the identities of China's senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong, the paper said.
"It may be difficult to understand for others but Shin destroys emotions and love among family members," said Song, a church defector who agreed to speak to CNN using a pseudonym in order to protect her from reprisals.
One defector who was a doctor and Party member in North Korea and arrived in Seoul in 2014, said medics at the Party-controlled hospital where he worked were not formally paid, but received bribes for treating patients.
Saleem Bakour, a defector from the Syrian army where he was a colonel, was killed when a militant managed to get into his heavily guarded base in the desert near the Jordanian-Iraqi border and blew himself up.
Reuters on Monday cited a North Korean defector as saying that Han Hun Il, the founding chief executive of Malaysia Korea Partners (MKP), had for two decades funneled funds to the central committee of Pyongyang's ruling Workers' Party.
"I am sure that more defections of my colleagues will take place, since North Korea is already on a slippery slope," the defector, Thae Yong-ho, said during a news conference in Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
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Keeping Kim's stool out of others' reach also prevents details about his health status from leaking to the public, Lee Yun-keol, a North Korean defector who was previously a North Korean Guard Command unit, told the Washington Post.
Jim Costa (D-Calif.), a senior member of the committee eyed as a potential defector over his close ties to California agriculture, voiced support for the proposal though noted he might oppose requests on a case-by-case basis.
The senior senator from Tennessee emerged unexpectedly as a possible Republican defector earlier this month after he joined Romney, Collins and Murkowski to add language to the organizing resolution guaranteeing a vote on considering additional subpoenas after opening arguments.
Because the Judiciary Committee is comprised of 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, a single Republican defector would be enough to gum up the smooth-running confirmation machine Mr Grassley has overseen since Mr Trump tapped Mr Kavanaugh in July.
Many residents, long accustomed to restrictions and shortages, were most concerned about the risk of already tight fuel supplies being cut further, said Kang Mi-jin, a North Korean defector in Seoul who reports for the Daily NK website.
Four ANEL lawmakers switched sides, along with a defector from To Potami (the River), a small centre-left party, handing Syriza the slimmest of victories in the small hours of January 17th: 151 votes in the 300-member house.
"Due to domestic political procedures, North Korea calculates that South Korea and the US will not be able to take physical or military actions to deter North Korea's nuclear development," the defector said at a news briefing in Seoul.
SEOUL, Dec 21 (Reuters) - South Korean guards fired around 20 warning shots at North Korean troops searching for a defector who fled across the heavily militarised border between the two countries on Thursday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
Another 24-year-old defector from Musan told me that fashions in popular South Korean dramas — jewel-lined hair bands, cropped jackets, trendy jeans and even kits for hair perms — had become available in market stalls in her city.
Viktor B. Suvorov, a G.R.U. officer who defected to Britain in 1978, wrote in a memoir that inductees were shown a gruesome film of a defector, strapped to a stretcher, being slowly rolled into a furnace and burned alive.
In June, a senior North Korean defector named Ri Jong Ho told Japan's Kyodo News agency that the Hermit Kingdom secretly buys up to 300,000 tons of oil products from Russia every year, procured by brokers based in Singapore.
There is also concern that a North Korean athlete or another member of the delegation might try to defect, putting the South Korean government in the difficult position of deciding whether to return the defector or anger the North.
How to Change Big Tech Roger McNamee's campaign to reform the ways in which Big Tech amasses and analyzes our personal data, as conveyed in Brian Barth's piece, is crucial to holding tech companies accountable ("The Defector," December 2nd).
A high-ranking North Korean defector is recommending that U.S. lawmakers greatly increase the dissemination of information inside the isolated country, saying funding for such efforts pales in comparison to U.S. military spending but will ultimately be more effective.
Human rights and North Korean defector groups in South Korea say they are struggling to raise money, cutting jobs and programs, and facing pressure to avoid criticism of Pyongyang as Seoul and Washington focus on diplomatic outreach to the isolated country.
The move was revealed after a fellow co-founder and defector Brogan BamBrogan filed a lawsuit alleging widespread mismanagement and nepotism within the company, enabled in part by "the disproportionate influence that the current ownership structure provides," McBride points out.
When the defector returned to seek out the leader at a warehouse remade by the group as its so-called Temple of Love, he was beaten by members of the leader's security team, some of whom carried stainless steel machetes.
Although many senior members of the government have been victims of UMNO's repression, the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, himself a defector from UMNO, eagerly and frequently abused the government's authority during a previous stint in power from 1981 until 2003.
Another defector, Heo Seong-il, sought asylum in the United States in August, after facing years of what he says was harassment by the South Korean government, including a three-year jail term on espionage charges he says were false.
The defector was a senior colonel with the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau, which is in charge of espionage operations against South Korea, according to South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun and Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee.
The hard line on aides and officials was eroding Kim's fragile support base, the defector said, in comments CNN was unable to confirm independently because of the challenges of verifying information inside North Korea, one of the world's most closed societies.
We get some glimpses of his ethically complex (if not outright sinister) methods throughout the film: his use of guerrilla attacks against Imperial forces in Jedha City, his use of a Bor gullet to torture Bodhi Rook, an Imperial defector.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A rare high-level defector from North Korea told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that disseminating more information in the reclusive country would ultimately be more effective than the billions of dollars being spent to address the military threat.
Either option is a good example of the type of choice-driven thrills Defector wants to offer, and the game feels like it will be a much-welcomed addition to the Rift library when it comes out sometime later this year.
The attempted assassination of a Russian defector in Salisbury with a nerve agent last year is also seen by some as a similar example of Moscow being willing to do things it would never have dared against the United States.
In recent months, reports have emerged that Russia may be secretly supplying North Korea with energy — even up to a third of the Hermit Kingdom's total oil supplies, if recent claims by a North Korean defector are to be believed.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's expulsion of two North Korean fishermen set a bad precedent that has spread fears in the North Korean defector community and could lend legitimacy to its widely criticized judicial system, defectors and activists said on Friday.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As North Korea grappled with a massive famine in the 1990s, scientists were working at an elite institute to find ways to boost then leader Kim Jong-il's longevity - and his libido, a defector said on Friday.
While the Mets welcomed back catcher Travis d'Arnaud, they will hold a workout for the Cuban defector Yulieski Gourriel, keep an eye on the former Met Jose Reyes, and take a look at which prospects might be promoted or demoted.
That's when defector Maura Schmierer successfully sued the Greens for forcing her to live for months in a storage shed with no bed or bathroom — punishment, Schmierer says, for putting the needs of her children before her commitment to the cause.
In addition to protection, the North Korean delegation may fine-tune its security detail to project a particular image for Kim Jong Un, said Ahn Chan-il, a defector and current president of the World Institute for North Korea Studies.
The last time there was such unity among the federal and state delegation was in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and even that had a defector — former Representative Scott Garrett — who did not sign an initial letter asking for federal assistance.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Syrian defector who smuggled thousands of photographs of torture out of the country, helping prompt new U.S. sanctions, pleaded with U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to enforce tough measures against Syria's government over atrocities during its civil war.
"Kim Jong-un didn't really have anyone to send to the Olympics, except for his cheerleaders and singers," said Joo Sung-ha, a North Korean defector who works as a reporter for the mass-circulation South Korean daily Dong-A Ilbo.
"It's our position that this tragedy must never be repeated," Heo Kwang-il, the chairman of North Korean Defectors Emergency Response Committee, a committee formed by defector interest groups following Han's death, wrote in a statement released earlier this month.
Get your most attractive — and tallest — female friends to model outfits and strut up and down an outdoor North Korean market, as one defector details in a new film on North Korea's millennial entrepreneurs called "Jangmadang Generation " (or market generation).
But Mr. Kim apparently sees in President Trump "a good opportunity for him to open a kind of compromise with the new American administration," North Korea's highest-ranking defector, Thae Yong-ho, said in an interview with CNN last week.
But when he has the time, according to Kim, a defector now living in South Korea, her brother helps trade goods such as TVs and bedding smuggled from China, a sideline lucrative enough for him to have recently bought a car.
He was Perelmann's son, Perelmann's biographer, Perelmann's philosophical interlocutor, Perelmann's estate executor, Perelmann's publicist, Perelmann's usurper, Perelmann's housekeeper, Perelmann's zealot, Perelmann's annihilator, Perelmann's designated philosophical heir, Perelmann's defector, Perelmann's librarian, Perelmann's gene carrier, Perelmann's foot soldier, Perelmann's betrayer, and Perelmann's doppelgänger.
SEOUL, South Korea — The highest-ranking defector from North Korea in years said on Wednesday that the days of the country's leadership were "numbered," and that its attempts to control outside information were not working because of corruption and discontent.
Another in the audience was North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho, who also shed tears as Trump described his escape from North Korea, where he had been run over by a train while trying to steal coal to barter for food.
Note how the man glows gold with the spirit of America as he shares the ball with a youngster—a ball hit by Cespedes, a Cuban defector who fled the tyranny of totalitarian government for the liberty of Old Glory's bosom.
Op-Ed Contributor Moscow — A BRITISH inquiry announced this week that Alexander V. Litvinenko, a Russian security officer turned defector who died in a London hospital of polonium poisoning in 2006, was "probably" murdered on the instructions of President Vladimir V. Putin.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A decade after leaving her family behind to flee North Korea, the defector was overwhelmed with excitement when she spoke to her 7063-year-old son on the phone for the first time in May after he too escaped into China.
Over the past year, more cameras and updated guard posts have been seen at the border, said Kang Dong-wan, who heads an official North Korean defector resettlement organization in South Korea and often travels to the border between China and North Korea.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday sought to unseal the to-date secret criminal case of an Islamic State defector after NBC News broadcast an interview with the New York man in which he spoke out against the militant Islamist group.
It is named after a Syrian defector who smuggled out tens of thousands of photos taken between May 2011 and August 2013 which, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch, show at least 6,786 separate individuals who died in government custody.
It's pretty scary, especially since he gets blown pretty damn close to the jet blast defector (and that he's on an aircraft carrier), but he manages to regain his bearings and even give a little celebration after getting tossed the hell around.
And in my short time with the game's demo earlier this month, I can reliably say that Defector is more an homage and tip of the hat to spy thriller and action franchises like James Bond and The Fast and the Furious.
The defector, a former Free Syrian Army fighter who switched to Islamic State, said the group had been taken over by former soldiers from the Iraqi Baath party of Saddam Hussein, who was ousted in 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
"The North Korean business owners I am helping can be an alternative group to build sound capitalism," said the defector, who is in his 25s and declined to be named fearing for his safety and that of his partners in the North.
A Syrian defector known as Caesar in 2013 smuggled out tens of thousands of photos taken between May 2011 and August 2013 that show at least 6,786 separate individuals who had died in government custody, HRW said in a report issued in December.
A defector from the Amn al-Dawla, ISIS's domestic spy service, told me in Istanbul two years ago -- weeks before the Paris attacks -- that he had personally trained two Arab-ancestry French foreign fighters who had subsequently been dispatched back to France.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After arriving in Britain, North Korean defector Jihyun Park tried to forget the horrors of slavery and forced labor that had led her to seek refuge in a strange land until her son surprised her with a question.
Trump embraces Putin at every turn despite conclusions of his own intelligence community that Putin ordered interference in the 2016 presidential election -- and the British assessment that the attempted assassination of a Russian defector was ordered at a senior level of Russia.
Other documents in the collection appeared to target Ukrainians, including LGBT activists, as well as the Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland, which was investigating the chemical weapon attack on GRU defector Sergey Skripal—both strong indications that Russian hackers were behind the campaign.
We have the potential to edit and release dozens more defector voices into social media, set up safe helplines to support friends and families who suspect radicalization in loved ones but fear reporting them to the FBI, and we need to "swarm".
One of the few people with both a deep knowledge of Kim's world and the freedom to speak about it is Thae Yong Ho, a diplomat who fled North Korea in 2016 and is the country's most senior defector in two decades.
SEOUL, South Korea — The only North Korean defector in South Korea who has publicly said she wants to return to her home country, insisting that she arrived here by mistake, applied for political asylum at the Vietnamese Embassy in Seoul on Monday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Human rights and North Korean defector groups in South Korea say they are struggling to raise money, cutting jobs and programs, and facing pressure to avoid criticism of Pyongyang as Seoul and Washington focus on diplomatic outreach to the isolated country.
"North Korea has not made an announcement on the two Koreas holding the summit in April yet," said Kang Mi-jin, a North Korean defector who works at the Seoul-based Daily NK website and regularly speaks to sources in the North.
The name was an intentionally political act, as was the isotope's appearance in that poisoned cup more than a century later, in 21926, presented by a former K.G.B. agent to Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian dissident and defector, who drank it and died.
His recognition of a North Korean defector during his State of the Union this year and his subsequent meeting in the Oval Office with North Korean defectors suggest that he is willing to call attention to human rights abuses in North Korea.
Wearing a hood to hide his identity, the defector, a former Syrian police photographer, explained to a congressional committee how he had smuggled photographs out of the country that documented how thousands of Syrians had perished in President Bashar al-Assad's prisons.
Taiwan's justice ministry ordered the two executives, Xiang Xin and Kung Ching, to remain in Taiwan while investigators looked into the assertions of a would-be defector in Australia that their company, China Innovation Investment Limited, acted on behalf of Chinese intelligence.
Each corps in the military and security ministry does this kind of gold mining, panning for gold in rivers and streams, wrote Kim Kwang-jin, a North Korean defector, in a report by the U.S.-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
In his address, Trump highlighted personal stories of victims of the Kim regime, inviting as guests North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho and the parents of Otto Warmbier, who died shortly after returning from North Korea where he spent 17 months in captivity.
In 2013, a Syrian defector known as Caesar smuggled out tens of thousands of photos taken between May 2011 and August 2013 that show at least 6,786 separate individuals who had died in government custody, HRW said in a report issued in December.
Another young defector I spoke with, who asked not to be identified, was able to buy a permit required to stay in Pyongyang — certainly not thanks to her parents' songbun, which was good but not great, but to their money and business connections.
A high-ranking North Korean defector said in Washington on Tuesday that he backed the Trump administration's policy of pressuring Pyongyang through sanctions, coupled with "maximum engagement" with the leadership and increased efforts to get information into North Korea to educate its people.
Late last week, the New York-based Human Rights Foundation and the Silicon Valley nonprofit Forum 280 launched Flash Drives for Freedom, an initiative to collect USB flash drive donations from Americans and then ship those slices of silicon to North Korean defector groups.
The two remaining videos in the series will feature Meron Estefanos, a Sweden-based journalist who also works as the director of Eritrean Initiative on Refugee Rights, and Jung Kwang-Il, a North Korean defector who started an organization that smuggles information into North Korea.
And Choi Sung-guk, a defector who now draws cartoons about the life in North Korea, said he was asked to leave a radio show at TBS, a Seoul City-owned network supportive of the Moon administration, less than five minutes after criticizing Kim.
The Skripal case has already drawn comparisons to one of those murders: that of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy and defector to the UK. In 2006, two Russian agents put polonium-210 — a highly radioactive chemical — in Litvinenko's tea at a London hotel bar.
"Al Qaida offered us strategic advice, media advice, and technical approaches, but many of the the al Qaida officials in charge of working with us have been killed in Yemen, so the link is weaker now," one recent mid-level defector told VICE News.
He pointed to invited family members of Otto Warmbier, an American detainee who died after returning from North Korea with severe injuries, and a North Korean defector who lost a leg while scrapping for food and traveled thousands of miles (kilometers) on crutches to escape.
N. Korea defector launches balloons with leaflets back into N. Korea Chuck Todd: We'll see Donald Trump's tax returns when they're forced out The South's announcement sparked protests in South Korea, as some worried that the deployment would make the region more unstable not less.
Reuters on Monday cited a North Korean defector as saying that Han Hun Il, the North Korean founding chief executive of Malaysia Korea Partners (MKP), had funneled money to Pyongyang's leadership, the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party, for the past two decades.
"When I heard that I had to learn English from the American soldiers, I was so afraid of and difficult to receive the fact," a defector, Ms. Oh, 23, said in imperfect English during a recent class, reading a short speech she had written.
Hwang Jang-yop, a former mentor to the late Kim Jong Il and North Korea's highest-ranking defector before he died in 2010, once told a Japanese newspaper that Jon had approached him to ask if they could "make a few more nuclear bombs".
The dozens of CIA officials who work for the defector program are responsible for keeping track of those individuals and advising them as best they can for the rest of their lives -- all the while knowing that foreign adversaries continue to aggressively search for them.
The Mass Games are a major draw for tourists, most of them from China, but the inclusion of thousands of child performers has been criticized by rights groups as tantamount to forced child labor, and testimonies collected by defector groups describe harsh training regimes.
Set in modern-day Seoul, the play depicts an unlikely romance between Nanhee, a thirtysomething North Korean defector, and Minsung, a middle-aged South Korean who works at Samsung and sends the bulk of his income to his wife and daughter in the United States.
A 24-year-old defector from Musan, North Korea, who described herself as a foreign movie fanatic when she still lived in the North, told me that she had learned in textbooks that South Koreans ran around naked and starving because they were so poor.
SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean border guard briefly crossed the border with the South in the chase for a defector last week - a violation of the ceasefire accord between North and South, a video released on Wednesday by the U.N. Command (UNC) in Seoul showed.
We know this because a high-ranking defector from North Korea testified in front of Congress last month; one of the things that would happen is a preemptive first strike from the United States or South Korea would result in an automatic massive response.
"The presidential office inserted the wage-diversion argument as major grounds, yet without concrete information, sufficient evidence and consultations with related agencies, mainly citing defector testimonies that lack objectivity and credibility," Kim Jong-soo, a priest who heads the panel, told a news conference.
They join an earlier defector, the flailing, floppy-haired Boris Johnson, a man who is half-crazed by his repeated failure to become the Conservative Party's leader and who is desperate to grasp at his last chance, even if it means undermining the country.
At the same time, reality TV shows featuring North Korean women — called "defector beauties" — telling all about their lives back home or participating in "The Bachelor"-type searches for love have chipped away at the sense of the North as a land of innocents.
If Netanyahu can't win over a defector from another party and Lieberman continues to stay on the sidelines, Israelis and Palestinians won't know whether they'll hurtle closer to an existential crisis produced by Netanyahu's annexations — or step back from the brink (most likely) under Gantz.
In July, a court there threw out a case that accused senior Syrian officials of war crimes in the death of a man whose sister spotted his corpse among photos of torture victims after a defector smuggled the images out of Syrian government prisons.
But just one defector — whose political career could be ended, analysts said, by such a betrayal of the voters who elected him or her — would be a lot to ask; three would seem to be a miracle, even for a political wizard like Mr. Netanyahu.
But the popular faces of the AfD are its top candidates Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel, the former a defector from the CDU party and the latter, an economist who lives with her female partner and children, despite the party promoting a "traditional family" ethos.
Thae was the most high-profile defector in years when he fled the country's embassy in the UK in 2016, seeking the protection of the South Korean government before moving to Seoul, where he has become a prominent critic of Kim Jong Un's regime.
Trump supporters push back at claims he's been soft on Russia, noting that he sold lethal weapons to Ukraine -- a step the Obama administration refused to take -- and kicked out Russian diplomats after Moscow tried to assassinate a former intelligence defector on US soil.
The Skripals' case has drawn comparisons to one of those murders: that of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy and defector to the UK. In 2006, two Russian agents put polonium-210 — a highly radioactive chemical — in Litvinenko's tea at a London hotel bar.
"My acquaintances in North Hamgyong province told me... they got power for 22017-22016 hours a day in 6003, versus 2600-220.5 hours in 24.5," said Kim Young Hui, a defector who now works as an economist at South Korea's state-run Korea Development Bank.
Kim Kwang Jin, a defector who once worked in North Korea's "royal court" economy, says that even if rumours that China had hoped to install Jong Nam if Jong Un fell from power are far-fetched, China would nonetheless have seen Jong Nam as useful leverage.
"All the outlets/agencies that have claimed these documents as exclusives come from a single source based in Turkey who has been shopping himself around as a purported IS defector." researcher and Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi told Gizmodo.
Twisted Pixel says Defector will come with a ton of settings to help players adjust the game to their own preferred comfort level, including tunneling in the screen during movement to reduce motion sickness and letting players adjust walking speed and other in-game movement elements.
One such 'defector' is Freeman Shen, who quit Chinese carmaker Geely two years ago to launch WM Motor, an EV start-up that aims to compete with Tesla Motors in China, the world's biggest autos market and one that encourages the new technology through policy and subsidies.
Not every franchise can risk $72.5 million on an untested outfielder, which is what Boston did with Rusney Castillo, a Cuban defector who played 99 games in the outfield for the Red Sox over the last three seasons before being sent back to the minors for good.
The president owes that as well to the North Korean defector who tearfully waved his crutches at the State of the Union address and to the score of other victims he hosted and brandished in the Oval Office as symbols of the Kim regime's moral depravity.
But the mention of unprecedented weather, and a series of related articles, suggest the heat wave could further strain its capacity to respond to natural disasters, said Kim Young-hee, a defector from North Korea and an expert on its economy at Korea Finance Corp in Seoul.
If the defector is successfully brought out of their home country, often in the dead of night, he or she and their family will be given new names, English lessons, some money, a house, and words of advice: don't use social media, don't contact anyone back home.
"We have worked and we continue to work in order to bring the pleas and the screams of tens of thousands of those that remain in detention," the defector, known only by the code-name "Caesar," said amid tight security at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
The defector drove a vehicle toward the border line inside Panmunjom, and then left the vehicle, running south while he was fired upon by other North Korean soldiers, according to the American-led United Nations Command, which oversees the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War.
In 2010, when two North Korean agents were caught in the South while on a mission to assassinate a high-ranking defector from the North, they said they were dispatched by Mr. Kim's General Bureau of Reconnaissance, the North's main spy agency, South Korean officials said.
SEOUL, South Korea — A former North Korean diplomat who fled his embassy posting has become the first defector to run for South Korea's Parliament, saying on Wednesday that he was motivated by Seoul's forced repatriation of two North Korean fishermen who wanted to defect to the South.
SEOUL/PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Days after a historic inter-Korean summit Lee Min-bok, a defector who has been flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North for 22016 years, received a call from an official at Seoul's Unification Ministry urging him to halt his balloon campaign.
The government of Qatar had asked me, along with the late Sir Desmond DeSilva and Sir Geoffrey Nice, to help figure out what to do with a defector from Syria who apparently had brought out tens of thousands of high-definition photos of the tortured dead.
" "There is very little doubt in people's minds that this is a signature act by the Russian state – deliberately using Novichok, a nerve agent developed by Russia to punish a Russian defector as they would see it, and in the run-up to Vladimir Putin's election.
North Korea's state media has not mentioned what happened to the officials publicly rebuked by Kim, although a recent report by the defector-run website Daily NK said some officials scolded by Kim during his visit to a medical appliances factory last month have been fired and exiled.
"The supreme leader cherishes her voice and North Koreans notice it as well, so there is no reason for Kim Jong Un to replace someone who has been called a treasure in North Korea," said Ahn Chan-il, a North Korean defector who now lives in South Korea.
Set in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor, Alphabet Squadron is about an Imperial defector named Yrica Quell who finds herself leading an effort to track down and destroy Shadow Wing, a particularly skilled TIE fighter squadron that's a thorn in the side of the Rebel Alliance.
Editorial President Vladimir Putin's deserved reputation as an autocrat willing to flirt with lawlessness in his global ventures has taken on a startling new aspect, with a finding by British authorities that he "probably approved" the poisoning of a former Russian spy and defector in London in 2006.
Mrs May's tough response may be a result of the criticism she received as home secretary for not having taken stronger measures when the Kremlin was implicated in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a defector from the Russian security services who was poisoned with polonium in London in 2006.
Recent defector surveys indicate that before leaving the North, more than 92 percent of surveyed participants had watched a foreign DVD, more than 70 percent had access to a mobile phone, and nearly 30 percent had listened to a foreign radio broadcast, according to the State Department's Malinowski.
By opposing Pruitt, Collins is the only defector from the Republican Senate, which for the most part seems thrilled to have an incoming EPA administrator who questions the scientific consensus on climate change and has spent his career filing lawsuits against the EPA over its efforts to regulate pollution.
The transition to life in the democratic and prosperous South can be difficult for any defector from the isolated and impoverished North, let alone for a soldier from an elite border unit with potentially actionable military intelligence and a high profile that may complicate efforts to blend in.
With John McCain in Arizona due to health reasons, the GOP has a razor-thin 51-vote majority in the Senate—with the aid of another defector, Corker could kill this deficit-busting giveaway to the rich when it comes up for a final vote later this week.
" Hiding in plain sight The CIA's defector program has existed since 1949 when Congress passed a law authorizing the agency to resettle up to 100 foreign nationals in the US if it's "in the interest of national security or essential to the furtherance of the national intelligence mission.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has dismissed its minister of state security, a key aide to the reclusive state's young leader, Kim Jong Un, South Korea said on Friday, in what a high-profile defector said would be another sign of a "crack in the elite" in Pyongyang if true.
In the 1980s, Knopf published several books by Mr. Sakharov; memoirs of Ms. Bonner and the dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, who served nine years in prisons and labor camps; and works by Mr. Shevchenko, the Soviet defector, and Mr. Timerman, who wrote of being tortured by Argentina's military regime.
Besides Ms. Mu Sochua and Ms. Park, the North Korean defector, scheduled speakers at the Taipei forum include Omar Sharif Jr., an Egyptian actor and L.G.B.T. rights activist; Megha Rajagopalan, the China bureau chief and Asia correspondent for BuzzFeed News; and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian democracy activist.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Minji Kim sliced spring onions and stirred pots of broth with dumplings in a pop-up kitchen in east London, the North Korean defector beamed with pride knowing that dozens of Britons had come to celebrate Lunar New Year and taste North Korean cuisine.
The defector, Wang Liqiang, said he worked for the company and took part in — or knew of — covert intelligence operations that included buying media coverage, creating thousands of social media accounts to attack Taiwan's governing party and funneling donations to favored candidates of the opposition party, the Kuomintang.
A young defector from Cuba, Viciedo reached the majors in 2010 and spent most or all of the next five seasons playing the Cell's outfield corners like he was looking for an address, hitting the occasional home run, and reaching base not quite 30 percent of the time.
"As my father still had to work at a state firm that could no longer afford giving rations, we survived by selling taffy and liquor my mom made," Ju Chan-yang, a 29-year-old defector, told a news conference hosted by the U.N. rights office in Seoul on Tuesday.
His fears were not without some foundation - the year he arrived in South Korea another prominent defector, Yi Han Yong, was shot dead by suspected North Korean assassins, and shortly after Hwang died South Korean authorities said they had arrested an agent of Pyongyang who had been planning to kill him.
Then a defector crosses over from the Other Side — a parallel realm reached through a basement in Berlin — and Howard is introduced to someone: a tough-guy version of himself, whom he must impersonate to stop an assassin (Sara Serraiocco) with a kill list that includes his wife (Olivia Williams).
"We can say that Kim Yong-chol's team in the United Front Department has been wiped out," wrote Joo Sung-ha, a North Korean defector and a reporter at the South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo, who was one of the first journalists to report on Kim Yong-chol's presumed downfall.
It simply does not matter that Lee Harvey Oswald, a defector to the Soviet Union, had espoused an ill-tutored form of Marxism from the time he was a teen-ager, or that seven months before killing Kennedy, Oswald, with the same rifle, shot at and nearly succeeded in killing Walker.
Nigel Inkster, a China expert who was a senior intelligence officer with MI6 and is now at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, reports how a defector defined the role of the security services as first of all to "control the Chinese people to maintain the power of the Chinese Communist Party".
I found that scene with Aderholt and Stan questioning a potential Soviet defector enlightening as far as Stan's mindset goes; the whole time he was frankly telling their mark about the potential for danger if she works as an informant, I was seeing the word "Nina" flash over and over behind his eyes.
" On Tuesday, high profile defector Thae Yong-ho, a former minister at the North Korean Embassy in London, said he thought plans were in place for a potentially devastating launch: "A nuclear test which the North is trying to conduct at the Punggye-ri test site will break the country into two pieces.
Of course, humans can also get sick with anthrax if they come in contact with infected barnyard animals, according to the CDC — a possibility that leaves intelligence analysts in the awkward position of needing to determine whether the defector was, in fact, a weapons specialist, or maybe just grew up on a farm.
It isn't the first time a North Korean defector has been found to have large numbers of stomach parasites or hepatitis B. A 2015 study of 169 defectors by Dankook University College of Medicine in South Korea found that out of the 17 female subjects who provided stool samples, seven had parasites.
Vladimir Rezun, a defector from the USSR's GRU military intelligence agency who wrote a series of books about his experience under the pen name Viktor Suvorov, describes in his memoir Inside the Aquarium how setting and checking dead drops was a core part of his routine as a Soviet spy in the 1970s.
A "highly noticeable" increase in electricity in 2018 compared to the year before has increased power availability for many homes and boosted the operations of factories and trains, said Kang Mi-jin, a defector who now writes about North Korea for the website Daily NK and speaks to sources inside the North.
Tearful North Korean waitresses: Our 'defector' colleagues were tricked The SD cards and USB flash drives contain Western and South Korean films, TV shows, music and internet-free access to Wikipedia -- media that will help get outside information to North Koreans, who are kept behind an invisible wall that cuts them off from outside influence.
Earlier this month, the Russian Embassy in Britain cited Mr. Trump's reported skepticism over Russia's role in an attempted assassination — using a deadly chemical weapon that only Russia is known to possess and widely attributed to Russian intelligence — of a Russia defector living in England in 2018 as the "the best evidence" of Russia's innocence.
While Trump has made gestures toward human rights issues in North Korea, those efforts have largely been designed to increase pressure on the country&aposs government, as when Trump recognized a North Korean defector during his State of the Union address in January and hosted a group of North Korean escapees in the Oval Office.
North Korea is so weak its economy might not last long under tough United Nations sanctions, a high-ranking defector said Monday in his first public speaking engagement in the U.S. The former insider's view of dictator Kim Jong Un's oppressive regime comes just as North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador stepped up the tough talk.
The exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky and the Chechen rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev were judged to be under "severe" threat of assassination, the officials around the table explained, meaning an attack was considered "highly likely," while a Russian journalist living in Britain and the Cold War defector Oleg Gordievsky had also been identified as Kremlin targets.
The defector claimed Abu Walaa had particular clout in Raqqa, Syria, because one of his former acolytes, a German ISIS operative named Lemke, was in charge of German members of the group's Amniyat security service and was in touch with Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who until his death was the second most powerful figure in ISIS.
The UAE is also forging closer ties with Russia including a wide-ranging strategic partnership signed last year to cooperate on security, trade and oil markets and with China, where Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and the UAEs defector ruler, last month made a three-day visit for a UAE-China economic forum.
In early September, petrol cost an average of $1.73/kg, compared with 97 cents last December, according to data from the defector-run Daily NK. "The cost of living has gone up, the price of petrol has risen and there are fewer cars on the streets," a foreign resident of the North Korean capital told Reuters.
Then they found out there were strings attached that if you wanted a particular human rights dissident from China to speak, or if you wanted the Chinese defector who had the high-level knowledge of the Chinese strategy to speak, no, you couldn&apost do this because you place in jeopardy your contract with the Confucius Institute.
The UAE is also forging closer ties with Russia — including a wide-ranging strategic partnership signed last year to cooperate on security, trade and oil markets — and with China, where Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and the UAE's defector ruler, last month made a three-day visit for a UAE-China economic forum.
The first man is more of a ruminator than a brute, though his threats are solid enough ("I know you must love your mother," he says darkly to the defector, hinting at reprisals back home), and the second is a sad-eyed stoic, pious in his fidelity to ballet and resigned to his status as a cuckold.
"This is the debut of 'North Korea's Solzhenitsyn,'" said Kim Kwang-jin, a defector and researcher at the government-funded Institute for National Security Strategy in Seoul, the South Korean capital, comparing Bandi to the Russian novelist and Nobel laureate whose writing helped raise global awareness of the gulag forced labor camps of the old Soviet Union.
Commentators wondered if its explicit portrayal of homosexuality, the inclusion of nudity — in the form of a full-frontal photograph of Nureyev by Richard Avedon used as a backdrop — and the ballet's depiction of a defector who chose the West over Russia, had been deemed inappropriate by the government, which provides 70 percent of the Bolshoi's budget.
Noble helped further radicalize the community when he began to play them tapes by John Todd, a Dallas-based hellfire preacher who claimed to be a defector from the "Grand-Druid Council of 13," the innermost circle of the evil hidden hand of the world—the Illuminati, who sought to enslave humanity with the aid of demonic forces and the Trilateral Commission.
It's an outcome that has its roots planted firmly in the first episode, and so, since it's been a while (almost six years!) here's a quick refresher: Our comrades have been sent on a mission to capture a major Russian defector by the name of Timoshev (David Vadim) and deliver him to their bosses for transport back to the Soviet Union.
The South Korean government has done extensive research on the gulags and prison systems in North Korea, but is going to have to be happy with talking to Kim in far more general terms about grain transfers, limited people-to-people talks with heavily watched North Korean citizens and athletes, and keeping Seoul's own 20,000-plus defector population from being too vocal.
The most prominent defector was Thae Yong Ho, the North's deputy ambassador to Britain, who became the highest-ranking diplomat to defect to the South when he arrived last month, an embarrassing blow to the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In April, 12 North Korean waitresses in a restaurant in China fled to the south, along with their manager.
But it is a strong testament to how much more fun those tropes and reused storylines can be when you get to act them out in VR. Similar to how last year's Wilson's Heart was about translating the dark and moody tones of old-school monster movies and horror flicks into VR, Twisted Pixel wants Defector to be a VR showcase for pulse-pounding blockbusters.
Knowing they have a fatally flawed candidate, whose disregard for classified information may have gotten an Iranian nuclear defector killed last week, they want to make this election all about Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
The attempted murder of Skripal and his daughter in the unlikely location of Salisbury is not the first time former Russian intelligence officials have been targeted in the U.K. the most infamous case is that of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko who was assassinated in 2006 with radioactive polonium-210, believed to have been administered to Litvinenko in a cup of tea in a London hotel.
Chosen, according to reports from An Chan-Il, a defector who runs the World Institute for North Korea Studies, by strict criteria on height and family background — Ri Sol-ju, the wife of Kim Jong-un, was originally in the cheer squad — they have worn everything from traditional Korean garb to Nike baseball caps and T-shirts, and often use flags and fans in the routines they do from the stands. Nike!

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