North Korea defector in Russia at risk of deportation

A North Korean defector in Russia faces involuntary repatriation after spending years as a forced laborer, according to local reports. Moscow newspaper Kommersant reported Sunday that Choi Myong Bok, a 54-year-old North Korean national, is in police custody and at risk of deportation. Online newspaper Fontanka published a similar report. Choi, who had worked as a manual laborer, escaped state surveillance for some time and remarried an ethnic Korean woman in Russia before he was detained.
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