South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's office on Thursday announced that former North Korean ambassador to the UK-turned-Seoul lawmaker Tae Yong-ho would lead the presidential advisory council on unification, making Tae the highest ranking former commie in Seoul, the BBC reports.
Tae, 62, defected to the west in 2016 while serving as Pyongyang's ambassador to London. He then set him and his family up in South Korea, acclimating quickly enough to win a National Assembly seat in the 2020 elections. He lost to a challenger in April, leaving him free for the unification post.
Earlier this week Seoul's top spy agency confirmed the Kim Regime suffered another similarly high profile defection earlier this year, stating that a man identified as Ri Il Kyu had fucked off from his diplomatic post in Havana. It's not clear if Ri had gone to South Korea or if he was going to settle down in a marginally less oppressive and dysfunctional communist state like Cuba.