Ambassador North Korea in Italy requests asylum

seoul - The North Korean ambassador in Italy applied for asylum in Rome in an unnamed Western country. The family of 48-year-old top graduate Jo Song Gil is in the meantime under...

Jo has been in charge of the embassy in Rome since October 2017. His predecessor Mun Jong Nam was deported by the Italian government in response to North Korea's nuclear tests. Reports about high North Korean government employees who are fleeing are rare.