 because he's going to be dealing with a different generation. A senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba has become the highest-ranking defector to flee to the South since 2019. Here's Celia Hatton. Ri Il-gyu was based, as you say, in North Korea's embassy in Cuba. And he had one job. He was meant to prevent Cuba from forming ties, diplomatic ties, with South Korea. That's North Korea's rival.