The son of a former South Korean foreign Minister, emigrated to North Korea. The spectacular event is actually a family tragedy, but in South Korea, for a lack of understanding. Fabian Kretschmer from Seoul.
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Choe In-Guk arrives in Pyongyang
As of last Saturday, the 73-year-old South Korean Choe In Guk at the airport of Pyongyang, arrives, welcome him to the North Korean party cadres welcome. The newcomer wanted to be in North Korea and be the life of the “Korean dedicate reunification,” reports the North Korean Regime-driven Propaganda website Uriminozokkiri. Similarly, Choe should have In Guk added: “North Korea is my true Fatherland.”
In South Korea is irritated the Public about the spectacular exit, but also the government. From Seoul’s unification Ministry says that the need to examine the exact circumstances of Choes case.
Choes grandfather was regarded as a Mentor of the country’s founder, Kim Il-Sung (image)
Choe travels without permission from
A government permit for the entry to the North, the needs of each South Korean citizen, have not owned Choe in any case, it means more. In the case of a return to South Korea he would have to reckon with a process. Crossing the border in the North without the approval in South Korea is punishable by law.
Since the Korean war (1950-53) such Departures from the South to North Korea on two hands to count. Most fled before law enforcement or personal problems. So 2014 was looking for a Korean in Pyongyang asylum, because he could not pay his debts. However, he was deported only a little later by the Kim Regime mercilessly.
War, division and dictatorship
Choes family history is closely linked with the history of his country. His grandfather was considered the Mentor of North Korean state founder Kim Il Sung. He visited in the 1920s, a military Academy in China, which was founded by Choes grandfather.
President Park Chung Hee (R.) and his daughter, later to become the President of South Korea Park Geun-hye
Choes father Choe Dok-sin studied prior to the outbreak of the Second world war, German language and literature at a Chinese military school was after the war, South Korean Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and foreign Minister.
During the military dictatorship in South Korea under Park Chung Hee, the five terms in a row from 1963 to 1979 President, he turned away, however, from the official rate. With his wife Ryu Mi-yeong, he moved in 1976 to the US-American exile, where the Couple committed as the opposition against the military junta.
In 1986, the Couple made headlines around the world, as it is to North Korea emigrated. Choes father was one of Pyongyang’s political Elite, but died only a few years later. His wife Ryu lived as a Chairman of the “party of the young friends of the S. Religion”, a block party in North Korea, until her death in 2016. Both were buried at the Pjöngjanger martyrs cemetery-an honor that only selected citizens from the North Korean Regime.
Border between South and North Korea: A divided Korea after the war
Stigmatized in the South
In South Korea, they left their son Choe In Guk, the portrayals of the South Korean media have a difficult life led. As the “son of the land of traitors,” he was stigmatized by the society. In addition, he was for many Years under surveillance by the South Korean secret service. Only after the democratization of South Korea was allowed him, the grave sites of his parents in the North to visit Korea.
In its current home Pyongyang Choe will result In Guk, without a doubt, a privileged life. The Kim Regime exploits the event as a propaganda victory and sold it to his population as a supposed proof of the Superiority of the North Korean system.
However, for this kind of life in Communist North Choe In Guk pays a high price. In South Korea, he leaves his wife and two children. If he can ever see them again is questionable.