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Thae Yong-ho 태영호
Member of the National Assembly of South Korea
defected65 years old
Thae Yong-ho, also known by his pseudonym Tae Ku-min, is a North Korean-born South Korean politician and former diplomat who served as a member of the National Assembly for the Gangnam district of Seoul. After studying abroad in Beijing, China, for a decade, he became North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, prior to defecting with his family to South Korea in 2016. Wikipedia
Positions
Notable
- 2024-07 Appointed Secretary-General of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in July 2024.source
Machine-readable: /api/people/thae-yong-ho · Wikidata Q26299233 · Photo: Zhang Wei, Voice of America (美国之音记者张伟拍摄) / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)