Ri Kang spent decades near Kim Jong-il and says he and wife Ko Yong-Suk fled to US in 1998 ‘out of terror of what those in power can do’The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has described how terror of the deadly power politics in Pyongyang drove him and his wife to defect to the US nearly 20 years ago.
In a telephone interview with South Korea’s Yonhap news agency,Ri Kang said they had been deeply concerned by what might become of them in any power struggle that followed the eventual death of Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il.
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Source: theguardian.com