North Korean Nuclear Scientist Commits Suicide After Defecting to China and Being Forced to Return

North Korean Nuclear Scientist Commits Suicide After Defecting to China and Being Forced to Return
This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sept. 3, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) looking at a metal casing with two bulges at an undisclosed location. STR/AFP/Getty Images
Ivan Pentchoukov
Updated:
A North Korean nuclear scientist who defected to China while taking a break to deal with “anxiety over his research projects” committed suicide in a prison cell after being captured in China and sent back to North Korea, according to a source inside the hermit communist kingdom who spoke to Radio Free Asia.

“He killed himself only a few hours after he was placed in solitary confinement at the State Security Department in Sinuiju city,” the source said.

Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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