“It was only polite to listen to other presenters at the symposium, but he desperately wanted to be outside, walking around the capital. This was his first trip to the United States, and he hated to spend the whole time inside a hotel, listening to lectures. Defect. The thought kept coming back to him. If he asked for political asylum, he could live here in DC and never go back to North Korea. The idea was so tantalizing. To live in this free country, where people did and said whatever they want...ed—even criticized their own government! He’d learned that in the first few hours he’d been at the symposium. If he were not alone in the world, he would never consider defection. But his parents had died young, and he was an only child. Sung, his beloved wife, had been eaten by cancer the previous year. So there was no one for Kim Jong-un to kill as punishment. Now was the time. Maybe the only opportunity he would ever have. Did he need to claim political persecution?MoreLessRead More Read Less
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