| [Kyodo: Korea] A North Korean government official who has been detained in Russia after smuggling himself into the country wants to defect to Russia or another country, Russian security and other sources said Monday. The 40-year-old man, who illegally entered the Ussuriysk area in the Russian Far East last September while working for an industry-related ministry of the North Korean government, recently conveyed his desire for defection to the Russian government and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the sources said. |