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Tag: Defectors (Political)

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Syrians Recount Gas Attack Under Assad as They Seek Justice

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025Carlotta Gall, Saad Alnassife and Kiana HayeriComments Off on Syrians Recount Gas Attack Under Assad as They Seek Justice

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.

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Syrians Recount Gas Attack: Choking, Shaking, Foaming at the Mouth

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025Carlotta Gall, Saad Alnassife and Kiana HayeriComments Off on Syrians Recount Gas Attack: Choking, Shaking, Foaming at the Mouth

Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.

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Kim Shin-jo, North Korean Commando Who Sought to Kill South Korea’s Leader, Dies

April 10, 2025April 10, 2025CHOE SANG-HUNComments Off on Kim Shin-jo, North Korean Commando Who Sought to Kill South Korea’s Leader, Dies

He famously said the mission of a hit squad sent by Pyongyang in 1968 was to “slit the throat” of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee.

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Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86

March 26, 2025March 27, 2025Clay RisenComments Off on Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86

While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its most highly placed moles.

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South Korean Officials Convicted Over Forcibly Sending North Koreans Home

February 19, 2025CHOE SANG-HUNComments Off on South Korean Officials Convicted Over Forcibly Sending North Koreans Home

The case of two North Korean fishermen, who murdered 16 compatriots before they sought asylum, has become a political minefield in the South.

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Wilmer Puello-Mota, Ex-U.S. Airman Charged With Child Pornography, Appears in Russian Video

August 21, 2024August 22, 2024Eve SampsonComments Off on Wilmer Puello-Mota, Ex-U.S. Airman Charged With Child Pornography, Appears in Russian Video

“I don’t consider myself a traitor,” said Wilmer Puello-Mota, who has enlisted in the Russian military.

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North Korean Diplomat Defects to the South, Talks of Execution

July 16, 2024July 16, 2024CHOE SANG-HUNComments Off on North Korean Diplomat Defects to the South, Talks of Execution

Ri Il-kyu, who fled to South Korea late last year, alleged that two North Korean officials who had been assigned to negotiate with the Trump administration had been punished.

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Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind

June 28, 2024June 29, 2024JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZComments Off on Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind

Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today.

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Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind

June 28, 2024JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZComments Off on Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind

Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today.

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A Russian Defector’s Killing Raises Specter of Hit Squads

March 31, 2024March 31, 2024Michael Schwirtz and José BautistaComments Off on A Russian Defector’s Killing Raises Specter of Hit Squads

The death in Spain of Maksim Kuzminov, a pilot who delivered a helicopter and secret documents to Ukraine, has raised fears that the Kremlin is again targeting its enemies.

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