Defector activist Park Sang-hak on Thursday submitted a letter renouncing government protection from North Korean death threats, accusing South Korean police of using it as a pretext for surveilling him.
In a letter addressed to local and national police, as well as the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Park — whose routine launches of anti-regime leaflets into the North sparked a major escalation of inter-Korean tensions last month — said he no longer wanted the police protection provided to him for the past 12 years.
That protection, he said, had been meant to protect him from “North Korea’s
Defector activist Park Sang-hak on Thursday submitted a letter renouncing government protection from North Korean death threats, accusing South Korean police of using it as a pretext for surveilling him.
Jeongmin Kim is a Lead Correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean and DPRK-related foreign, defense and humanitarian affairs, and has covered the 2022 ROK Presidential election on the ground. Prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency's Seoul bureau. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim