High-ranking North Korean officials are leaving the country and seeking asylum amid fears over the Kim Jong-un regime’s rampant rights violations and abuses.
“About 10 North Korean officials and workers have recently fled the country,” the vernacular daily quoted a source as saying. Some of them are reportedly living in South Korea.
Ten Koreans were killed and 16 others were injured on Wednesday afternoon in a bus accident in China.
The passenger bus was carrying 26 South Koreans when it veered off a bridge in the Chinese city of Jian and fell into a river.
The dead include nine public servants and a tour guide.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the exact cause for the accident has yet to be confirmed.
Korea’s millennial generation entrepreneurs are competing on a global stage.
“Korea’s millennial generation has learned English since they were young, and they are not afraid of advancing into the global market,” the daily quoted a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) professor as saying. They start their businesses with their creativity and technical skills.
Cheong Wa Dae and pro-Park Geun-hye faction lawmakers are isolating ruling Saenuri Party floor leader Yoo Seong-min.
The party leader Kim Moo-sung is also joining the movement.
Yoo was supposed to attend a National Assembly meeting on July 1, but did not show up. Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan is known to have asked a pro-Park faction lawmaker to prevent Yoo from attending the meeting.