What an exchange between the newly appointed Unification Minister Lee In-yeong and defector-turned-Assembly Member Thae Yong Ho:

Thae: "Do you still believe in Juche? Why is it so hard to tell the people, 'I no longer follow Juche'?"

https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=shm&sid1=100&oid=052&aid=0001468689
Lee: "I did not follow Juche then [as a student activist], and I do not today. ... Insisting on an ideological conversion indicates you don't fully understand how a democracy works."
In a nutshell, this exchange shows why the S Korean public is slowly turning on N Korean defectors. Just like the way the former East Germany is now the hotbed for the right-wing AfD, prominent N Korean defectors are increasingly turning to alt-right politics in S Korea.
Thae's heroics of escaping N Korea is well known among the S Korean public. But reverting to McCarthyism against a four-term Assembly Member-turned-Uni Minister can only insult the S Korean public who saw how this type of questioning supported a right-wing dictatorship.
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