A ranking North Korean embassy official in Beijing has defected, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, while a separate report suggested two embassy staff had sought asylum with the Japanese mission there. If confirmed, it would mark the latest in a recent series of high-profile North Korean defections that ...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov accused the United States of significantly increasing its intelligence activities aimed to recruit Russian diplomats. “In the last two years and a half [US] recruiting activities in regard to our employees have significantly increased, and US intelligence services use the most miserable means of ...