 South Korea's President Thursday appointed a former North Korean diplomat as a vice minister, the highest level government job for any of the thousands of North Koreans who have resettled in South Korea. Tae Yong-ho was a minister of the North Korean embassy in London when he defected to South Korea in 2016. Tae is the highest ranking North Korean who has resettled in South Korea in recent years. He said he did so because he did not want his children to live miserable lives in North Korea, and he fell into despair over Kim Jong-un's executions of officials,