Try to change North Korea’s regime peacefully, says ex-ambassador to Egypt-turned defector

The highest-level North Korean defector in two decades says America should bring change peacefully by challenging the totalitarian regime’s grip on information rather than resorting to military action, the Associated Press reports. The defector, Thae Yong Ho, was North Korea’s ambassador to Egypt when he fled and resettled in the US in 1997 and now lives in South Korea. “You can’t change the reign of terror policy of the internal regime, but we can do the dissemination of outside information inside North Korea,” Thae says.