North Korea alleges that the daughter of a diplomat defector who went missing asked to return home, according to a Wednesday statement from the Italian Foreign…
North Korea alleges that the daughter of a diplomat defector who went missing asked to return home, according to a Wednesday statement from the Italian Foreign Ministry.
The girl, who was staying with her father at his post in Rome, asked to return to her grandparents in North Korea, according to a statement from the country, the Italian ministry said, Reuters reported. “The Farnesina (Foreign Ministry) does not have any further information about this affair,” the ministry said Wednesday.
The announcement comes after North Korean diplomat Jo Song Gil and his wife were reported missing in November. The pair had applied for asylum in a Western country, according to a South Korean newspaper, Reuters reported. Jo had been serving as a diplomat in Italy since 2015.
Jo was not able to bring his daughter with him, a former deputy North Korean ambassador to Britain, Thae Yong Ho, said Tuesday, according to Reuters.
