Tucked away on a quiet street in West London, you could easily overlook the North Korean embassy. Purchased by the North Korean government in 2003, it's situated in the suburban district of Ealing ...

Tae Yong-ho, who served as a minister at the North Korean Embassy in London, was one of the highest-profile defections ever when he fled to South Korea in 2016. Thousands of North Koreans have ...

More than 6,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been injured or killed while fighting in Russia’s Kursk region in support of Moscow’s war on Ukraine, according to estimates by British ...

and was previously an ambassador at the North Korean Embassy in London. The appointment makes him the first North Korean defector to be given a vice-ministerial job in South Korea, according to AP.

FILE - Tae Yongho, a former minister of the North Korean Embassy in London who fled to South Korea in 2016, speaks to the media in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man ...

Newsweek reached out to Russia's Foreign Ministry and the North Korean Embassy in London for comment via email. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on January 11 that two had been ...

Tae Yongho was a minister of the North Korean Embassy in London when he defected to South Korea in 2016. Tae is the highest-ranking North Korean who has resettled in South Korea in recent years.