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Thae Yong-ho, a high-profile North Korean defector, has offered to quit a think tank affiliated with South Korea's spy agency, its official said Thursday.
The former London-based diplomat who defected to the South in 2016 expressed an intent to resign from an advisory post at the Institute for National Security Strategy late Wednesday, according to the official. He has worked for the institute since January 2017.
Thae made the decision voluntarily in consideration of the current growing momentum for the reconciliatory mood and cooperation between the two Koreas, the official said.
His departure came about a week after he published a controversial memoir focusing on the inner working of the North Korean regime and criticism of its leader Kim Jong-un, which drew harsh words from the North.
In a press meeting arranged to mark the publication on May 14, Thae said that the North will never give up its nuclear program, adding that the North's ultimate goal is to become a nuclear weapons state. (Yonhap)
