DPRK: Famine. Greg Scarlatoiu, director of The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
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DPRK: Famine.
Greg Scarlatoiu, director of The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korean-diplomat-cuba-defected-south-korea-rcna162039
https://www.nknews.org/2024/07/kim-jong-un-reasserts-personal-oversight-of-rural-economy-at-new-fishery-project/
1951 KOREA
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. This is a series of CBS Island the World. I'm John Bachelor. Gordon Chang at |
| 0:38.5 | Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host, and we're very pleased to welcome |
| 0:42.4 | Greg's Corlato to director of the Committee for Human |
| 0:45.2 | Rights in North Korea to comment on an unusual story these last years. |
| 0:50.7 | NBC News reporting, North Korean diplomat in Cuba defects to South Korea |
| 0:58.2 | according to Seoul. The defection of the Cuba-based diplomat in November last year was the highest profile defection from north to south in several years. |
| 1:09.0 | Greg, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:11.0 | Defection stories usually are complicated family tragedies and or have |
| 1:17.4 | to do with somebody who was on the outs, some kind of competition. How do you regard the defection of a, |
| 1:25.0 | what you'd have to say is a highly placed diplomat who was in a country, |
| 1:30.0 | Cuba, that is sympathetic to the axis of resistance. |
| 1:34.8 | In other words, this is not alien territory. |
| 1:37.0 | He ran away from the thugs themselves. |
| 1:40.0 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:41.0 | A very good evening to you, John and Gordon. |
| 1:43.1 | Indeed, over the past few years, |
| 1:44.8 | due to the crackdown on attempted defections, |
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