South Korean government intelligence indicates a fifth North Korean nuclear test could be in the works ahead of that major political gathering. Observers believe Kim is trying to project strength, both domestically and internationally, ahead of the crucial Worker’s Party Congress next month, when the young leader is expected to consolidate his power. And last week, an apparent attempted mid-range missile launch on the nation’s most important holiday failed. One month later, he ordered a satellite launch using a long-range rocket. In January, Kim ordered an H-bomb test just days before his birthday.
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Pyongyang has responded to mounting global pressure with a series of provocative shows of force. Ongoing allegations of widespread human rights abuse made by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights continue to infuriate North Korean leadership. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s government faces growing isolation and heightened sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs. Many analysts believe China’s actions could be a sign of increased tension between Pyongyang and Beijing. It is worth noting that these people all had valid identity documents with them and exited the Chinese border in accordance with law,” he said in an April 11 press conference. “After an investigation, 13 citizens were found exiting the Chinese border with valid passports on the early morning of April 6. North Korea sanctions: Is China doing its part? But last week, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lu Kang made the unusual move of commenting publicly about the case. In the past, China has sent defectors back to North Korea. Especially because it was apparently allowed by China, North Korea’s most powerful ally and trading partner. If true, a mass defection would be a humiliating blow to the Pyongyang leadership. North Korea planning terror attack on South, spy agency says Following their voluntary request to defect, our government accepted them from a humanitarian point of view.”
In response, the South Korean Unification Ministry issued a statement to CNN: “13 defectors voluntarily decided to leave and pushed ahead with the escape without any help from the outside. “I think about our colleagues being deceived and dragged to South Korea and facing extreme hardship there,” said a sobbing Han Yun Hui. The waitresses in Pyongyang claim their manager, and a South Korean businessman, coordinated the trip under the direction of government authorities in Seoul. “The car was already waiting for us at that time,” Choe said as she broke down in tears. “In mid-March our restaurant manager gathered us together and told us that our restaurant would be moved to somewhere in Southeast Asia,” said head waitress Choe Hye Yong.Ĭhoe says by the time the manager revealed, only to her, that they would actually be defecting to South Korea, she only had time to “warn” a handful of the waitresses. They claim the restaurant manager tricked the other 12 waitresses into leaving, by lying about their final destination. This is the first time they have spoken publicly. The seven waitresses, presented exclusively to a CNN team in Pyongyang on Monday, are workers from the same Ningbo restaurant, who have since returned to North Korea.
North Korean official on Trump: “Totally absurd and illogical” “The workers said that they learned about the reality in South Korea through South Korean TV, soap operas, movies and (the) internet,” said South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee at the time.Ī spokesman for the North Korean Red Cross quickly denounced the apparent defections as a “group abduction” of North Korean employees “in broad daylight,” according to KCNA – the official mouthpiece of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s government. Senior North Korean officer defects to South Last week, South Korea announced 12 North Korean women and one man defected after “feeling pressure from North Korean authorities” to send foreign currency back to their homeland, according to a South Korean government spokesman. None of us would ever do that,” said waitress Han Yun Hui, sobbing alongside her colleagues. “We would never leave our parents, country, and leader Kim Jong Un. And these women’s lives have become extraordinarily complicated. Until earlier this month, they were waitresses at a state-owned and operated restaurant in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, in southern China. The odd reality behind Shanghai’s Pyongyang restaurants They come from good families and were chosen for the coveted assignment of working abroad to earn money for their government. The women, all in their 20s, represent some of the most trusted citizens in the North Korean capital.
Most wear little or no makeup, black jackets, and patriotic red lapel pins. The door opens and seven women walk quietly into the ornate lobby of the Koryo Hotel in Pyongyang.
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