Ex-North Korean negotiator turns out to be first turncoat chose for South Korea's Parliament

A previous North Korean representative has become the principal deserter from the tyrant state to be chosen for South Korea's Parliament — an advancement that will probably cause some disruption of the neutral ground in Pyongyang.

Thae Yong Ho will speak to Gangnam, one of the most well-to-do neighborhoods in the capital, Seoul, and which rose to worldwide acclaim itself in rapper PSY's 2012 hit melody, "Gangnam Style."

"Republic of Korea is my country and Gangnam is my old neighborhood," Thae said Thursday, as he warmly greeted his cheering supporters when it turned out to be evident that he had won his seat in Wednesday's vote.

"At the point when I abandoned in 2016 to my homeland, the Republic of Korea, I pledged I will spend an incredible remainder here-on for my country, the Republic of Korea," he included. "I currently can place my purpose energetically on the grounds that you have picked me today."

Thae, 57, filled in as delegate leader of the North Korean government office in London from 2006, preceding surrendering to South Korea with his family in 2016. He is the most significant level North Korean ambassador to surrender from the nation to date.

In South Korea he ran for the preservationist restriction United Future Party in one of the principal across the country decisions to be held during the coronavirus pandemic.

A candid pundit not just of North Korean President Kim Jong Un's system, Thae has additionally censured South Korean President Moon Jae-in's endeavor to improve ties with his neighbor. Doing so would just draw out the sufferings of common North Koreans, Thae has stated, contrasting the nation with a major jail.

Thae ran for political race under his recently received South Korean name, Thae Ku Min. Ku Min signifies "spare individuals."

During his crusade he rapped wearing a pink baseball top and pink tie, the shade of his gathering.

Thae's success speaks to a discovery for the in excess of 30,000 North Koreans who have fled to live in South Korea in the previous two decades.

Prior to him, just a single other North Korean turncoat has become a South Korean administrator. In 2012 Cho Myung Chol was named by his gathering as a corresponding agent official, dissimilar to Thae who was chosen from a region.

Most of South Korea's 300 National Assembly individuals are chosen by the open utilizing a first past the post framework. Be that as it may, 47 individuals are chosen through a shut rundown corresponding portrayal framework and picked by parties as opposed to the general population.

It was likewise affirmed Thursday that another North Korean deserter turned human rights extremist, Ji Seong Ho, has additionally become a South Korean official, yet as a corresponding agent of a gathering, as Cho, as opposed to being chosen from a region.

Moon's decision party won an avalanche triumph in the parliamentary races on Wednesday, moved partially by achievements in South Korea's fight against the coronavirus episode.