the people’s choice said in his Twitter account. “I took part in the General meeting of the new elected deputies. Report that I completed the procedure of name change and now continue to operate under their original name of Tae Yong-Ho!” – said in a post on the social network. It also became known that he had fixed the true and your date of birth – July 25, 1962.
According to Tae, he was going to go to the polls under his real name, but it turned out that for the settlement of all formalities will take at least three months, so he ran as Tae GU Min.
After escaping with his family to South Korea Tae Yong Ho, as is the case with defectors for security reasons, was registered under a new name and new date of birth. As the new name he chose Tae GU Min. Name – Tae – remained the same, whereas the new name means “Savior of the people.” Thus Tae said that he intends to save the people of North Korea and fight with the ruling elite of the DPRK.
At a meeting held April 15 National Assembly elections (Parliament) of the Republic of Korea Tae-ran from the main opposition United party of the future, which has a conservative orientation. He had a full campaign and won in one of the districts of Seoul. This was the first ever case of South Korea when North Korean defector became a Deputy in single-mandate constituency and not by party lists. Though not everyone liked it and still circulates a large number of sarcastic comments related to his victory. In any case, Tae Yong Ho became a member of the Parliament of South Korea.
Tae Yong Ho arrived in South Korea in August 17, 2016. He escaped with his family from London, where he worked as a Deputy North Korean Ambassador to the UK. This escape has surprised many, as Tae was known to many Western journalists as “the mouthpiece of North Korea in the West,” where he regularly constantly told about the virtues of the North Korean system. Tae also took an active part in ensuring the stay in 2015 in London is the elder brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-UN, Kim Jong Chul, who is known as a great lover of music and admirer of Eric Clapton. Tae then wrote a book about North Korea and about his work, saying he decided to run because the North Korean authorities recalled him, not allowing his son to finish his studies in an English University.
new home Tae some time worked in the state research Institute, affiliated with the South Korean intelligence service, but later left the Institute because of his critical views against the DPRK broke with the line of the new ROK government, which was to bet on the development of relations and cooperation with Pyongyang. Tae and his entourage also complained that indirectly ruling structure did everything possible to not CCA��course was widely featured in South Korean media. Tae himself has repeatedly stated about the need to overthrow the government of the DPRK headed by Kim Jong-UN.
