Top defector: Thae holding a media conference in Seoul. — Reuters
Seoul: Jung Gwang-il, a prominent North Korean prison camp survivor turned defector, is used to having a plainclothes police officer shadow him wherever he goes in South Korea.
The South Korean Government has provided security for the 54-year-old human rights activist, who continues to campaign publicly against the regime in Pyongyang, since he arrived in Seoul in 2004.
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