?We have to spray gasoline on North Korea, and let the North Korean people set fire to it.?Thae, 54, has said publicly that dissatisfaction with Kim prompted him to flee his post. Thae has said more North Korean diplomats are waiting in Europe to defect to South Korea. North and South Korea are technically still at war as their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. North Korea?s elite is outwardly expressing its discontent towards Kim Jong-un and his government as more outside information trickles into the isolated nation, the country?s former deputy ambassador to London has said. Thae Yong-ho defected to South Korea in August last year and since December has been speaking to media and appearing on television to discuss his defection and his life as a North Korean envoy.

The government?s policies around babies born to refugee women have also led to an unusual legal sophistry. Doctors refused to discharge the baby from hospital, stating the Nauru detention centre was not a safe environment for her. The price of `stopping the boats`: abusing asylum-seekers and shaming our country | Mark Isaacs Read moreThe policy has led to extraordinary circumstances on the island for pregnant refugee women. But the Australian government has said that she must deliver her baby on Nauru, saying there are ?comprehensive? medical services on the island. The Guardian has confirmed the woman remains on Nauru, despite medical transfer flights leaving the island this week.