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High-level North Korean defector wins South parliament seat

by Associated Press
| April 16, 2020 12:03 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A former senior North Korean diplomat won a constituency seat in South Korea’s parliamentary elections, the first such achievement among tens of thousands of North Koreans who have fled their authoritarian, impoverished homeland.

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