<p><span style="font-family: Dotum,돋움,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pyongyang tracks down defector, people around him</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Dotum,돋움,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br></span></strong></span></p><p><br></p><span style="font-family: Dotum,돋움,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p><br></p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><p><br></p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><p>North Korea has been hunting down its top diplomat in Italy after he went missing in early November amid news reports he applied for <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 224, 140);">asylum</span> with an unidentified Western country.<br><br><br></p><table align="center" style="margin: 10px auto; width: 492px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" categoryid="9900000000000000"><tbody><tr><td><img width="492" height="505" style="cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://img1.daumcdn.net/relay/cafe/original/?fname=http%3A%2F%2Fres.heraldm.com%2Fcontent%2Fimage%2F2019%2F01%2F04%2F20190104000447_0.jpg" categoryid="9900000000000000"></td></tr><tr><td align="left"><font style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18px; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px;">Jo Song-gil (Yonhap)</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>The department of international affairs of the North’s Workers’ Party and its Foreign Ministry were ordered to conduct a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 224, 140);">sweeping</span> probe into its acting Ambassador to Rome Jo Song-gil, look for others who may be seeking to defect and find ways to prevent such occurences, JoongAng Ilbo reported Friday, citing unnamed sources.<br><br>The South Korean spy agency confirmed that Jo went missing in early November, according to lawmakers on the parliamentary intelligence committee. <br><br>Pyongyang sent a team to track down Jo immediately after he went into hiding two months ago, JoongAng Ilbo said, citing a source in Italy.<br><br>“Four diplomats were stationed in the North Korean Embassy in Rome, and there were barely any others going in and out of the embassy. But unfamiliar faces were seen entering the embassy in the past two months,” the source was quoted as saying by the newspaper.<br><br>“Seems like the team (from Pyongyang) initially sought to get hold of Jo to keep him from defecting, but after he requested for protection by Italian authorities, they focused on fact-finding and coming up with countermeasures.”<br><br>When Thae Yong-ho, the North’s former deputy ambassador to the UK, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 224, 140);">defect</span>ed to the South in 2016, the North replaced its ambassador in London. <br><br>Following Thae’s defection, officials in the North’s diplomatic missions in not just the UK but also China were seen returning home at the time. The North Korean <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 224, 140);">consulate</span> in Shenyang, China, had gone largely inactive. The North’s diplomatic mission in Uzbekistan, the last that had remained in Central Asia, closed.<br><br>By Kim So-hyun(sophie@heraldcorp.com) </p></span><p><strong><br></strong></p></span><p><br></p></span><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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첫댓글 asylum 영어
발음미국/영국 [əsáiləm]
뜻① 망명 ② 피난처 ③ 보호 더보기
숙어
an asylum for the aged 양로원
a lunatic asylum 정신 병원(※현재는 a mental hospital이 사용됨)
sweeping 영어
발음미국/영국 [swíːpiŋ]
뜻① 광범위한 ② 휩쓰는 ③ 압도적인 ④ 쓸다 더보기
숙어
a sweeping torrent 무시무시한 격류.
sweeping revisions 전면 개정.