First LGBT couple to hold a public wedding were rejected for a marriage license at district office past year “This is a hugely important day for my husband and I, as well as for all LGBT people in South Korea”. While focusing on the symbolism that she herself will provide, she needs to also prepare for the possibility of meaningful dialogue with North Korean officials.
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Yang Xilian, a major general at the Chinese embassy in Seoul, told the nationalistic Chinese tabloid Global Times that the intelligence war between China and South Korea has never stopped and that Seoul has always been extremely careful to prevent the leaking of intelligence to Beijing, raising doubts about the credibility of the South Korean reports.
The ministry said it would follow the protocol of allowing citizens from the North to seek refuge in South Korea, much to the disappointment of Pyongyang.
Kim Jong-un visited the Taedonggang Terrapin Farm in May he criticised the officials at the farm for their failure to keep the tanks adequately supplied, the Daily NK reports. “We again told the North that we would repatriate the other two”.
Officials could be concerned about “whether they’re looking at another significant purge or not, and potentially could be voting with their feet”, he said, though he added that he did not see the defections as “being particularly destabilizing within the regime”.
The Ministry of Unification (MOU), on Monday said it would examine Lee’s visit comprehensively.
South Korean policy allows the country to take in North Korean defectors, with the country accepting an estimated 30,000 people over the last two decades.
South Korea is however still highly conservative on sexual identity and homosexuality.
According to the NIS, Kim has ordered the execution of more than a dozen officials so far this year, apparently for questioning his authority. “I got married in South Korea and had a baby here”.
The manager tried to explain that electricty outages led to their deaths, but Kim Jong-un wasn’t having any of it and it’s alleged that the manager was executed.
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Last month, North Korea sentenced two South Korean men to hard labor for life for spying for the South. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim Kuk Gi and Choe Chun Gil had been found guilty of state subversion at a trial.
