Thae Yong Ho, North Korea's former deputy ambassador to Britain, speaks during a news conference, ahead of the country's general election in April, in Seoul, South Korea February 19, 2020. REUTERS/Heo Ran
SEOUL (Reuters) - Politics in South Korea is drawing high-profile North Korean defectors in numbers not seen before, aiming to remedy what they call failures by President Moon Jae-in's administration to protect refugees from the North.
Two defectors have entered the fray for parliamentary elections in April as candidates of the main conservative opposition party, and about 200 launched a party this week that vows to counter Moon's policies.
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