This undated file photo shows Minister of Unification Cho Myoung-gyon (Yonhap)
Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon held meeting with defectors in Seoul on Wednesday where he apologized for his controversial decision to prevent a defector-turned-journalist from covering recent inter-Korean talks, a participant said.
Cho had a lunch meeting with representatives of three North Korean defector groups at a Seoul restaurant to explain his position on the controversy and listen to defectors’ opinions on pending inter-Korean issues.
One participant said after the meeting, “Minister Cho said sorry and made an apology for excluding a defector-turned-journalist from the coverage of inter-Korean talks.”
The minister recently caused a stir by excluding a defector-turned-journalist of the conservative Chosun Ilbo daily newspaper from the pool of reporters covering high-level inter-Korean talks held at the truce village of Panmunjom on Oct. 15. [Chosun Ilbo]
Little doubt the defectors were starting to fell right back at home.
Mcgeehee
6 years ago
feel
AppeasingNorthKorea
6 years ago
Those defectors should just thank their lucky stars that they weren’t either sent back to North Korea or sent to prison with trumped-up charges like corruption or something. Keep this up and they’re going to be blacklisted.
Flyingsword
6 years ago
All the defectors should be headed to a third country embassy to ask for asylum. Commie moon is going to sell these poor people out to his nK overlords. Knew exactly what they were doing when the excluded them from the press pool. More commie tricks.
10 days late. Talk is cheap.
Little doubt the defectors were starting to fell right back at home.
feel
Those defectors should just thank their lucky stars that they weren’t either sent back to North Korea or sent to prison with trumped-up charges like corruption or something. Keep this up and they’re going to be blacklisted.
All the defectors should be headed to a third country embassy to ask for asylum. Commie moon is going to sell these poor people out to his nK overlords. Knew exactly what they were doing when the excluded them from the press pool. More commie tricks.