韩联社说，它从情报来源处获悉，朝鲜最近下令其所有海外外交官的成年子女回国。
消息人士说，韩国情报机构“国家情报院”的官员在一个闭门会议上对一个国会监督委员会说，平壤颁布了一道命令，要求所有年龄在25岁及以上的外交官子女回国，很明显这是为了阻止有可能出现的叛逃的措施之一。
但是，韩国国会的一位消息人士告诉韩联社，据信该命令没有直接导致韩国驻英国大使馆二号人物太勇浩的投诚。该消息人士认为，太勇浩很可能“伺机离开已经有一段时间了”。
South Korea's Yonhap news agency says it has learned from intelligence sources that North Korea has recently ordered the adult children of its overseas diplomats to return home.
The sources say officials with South Korea's spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, told a parliamentary oversight committee in a closed door session that Pyongyang issued the return order for all diplomats' children 25 years old and older , as part of an apparent effort to stop potential defections.
But a parliamentary source told Yonhap it is believed the order did not directly cause the recent defection of Thae Yong Ho, North Korea's second ranking official in Britain. The source says it is likely that Thae "had been seeking a chance to leave for some time."
