Authorities are searching for a diplomat's family, who may be trying to escape North Korea's dictatorship.
According to Siberia.Realities, the diplomat filed a missing persons report and police said the two could be trying to flee to China or South Korea.
A file photo showing a Chinese border guard standing watch at a border crossing with Russia at the Chinese border town of Suifenhe, northeastern Heilongjiang province. A North Korean diplomat's wife and teenage son have gone missing in Russia. Reports suggest the two could have tried to defect to China or South Korea via Russia.
Police reportedly interviewed the first taxi driver, who said he dropped the two off on Vladivostok's Russkaya Street, which was said to have been confirmed by closed-circuit TV footage., reported that it is believed the diplomat's wife and son flew to Krasnoyarsk—a city in Siberia—by plane from Khabarovsk while using fake documents of South Korean citizens.The Korea Herald
reported that a similar situation occurred in 2016 when a North Korean diplomat stationed in Russia defected to South Korea. The envoy was staying at the consulate general in Vladivostok at the time and possibly defected with his family, according to the Seoul-based newspaper.
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