PhotoIn 1998, he used $13,000 in savings to bribe a South Korean to make him a business partner so he could get a South Korean visa. Once in South Korea, Mr. Kim told the businessman he was actually a North Korean and wanted to defect. 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. 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. Mr. Jung said the South Korean asked him and other North Koreans to smuggle out North Korean government documents after they returned home.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2017 14:03 UTC