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| South Korea’s Kim Jong Yang chosen as Interpol chief after US outcry against Russian candidate | South Korea’s Kim Jong Yang chosen as Interpol chief after US outcry against Russian candidate |
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| After a massive campaign against a Russian candidate by US senators, and MSM hysteria over his possible win, Kim Jong Yang from South Korea has been elected as director of Interpol. | After a massive campaign against a Russian candidate by US senators, and MSM hysteria over his possible win, Kim Jong Yang from South Korea has been elected as director of Interpol. |
| Kim was assigned the role of Interpol’s acting president after the resignation of Meng Hongwei. The latter is currently detained in his native China, pending a corruption investigation. | |
| However, it wasn’t Kim’s candidacy that dominated discussion in the mainstream media prior to the announcement, but that of Alexander Prokopchuk – the organization’s current vice president. The Times assumed that his election would signify a “victory” for the Kremlin. | |
| READ MORE: US senators rally against Russian Interpol candidate, Moscow calls it ‘intervention’ | READ MORE: US senators rally against Russian Interpol candidate, Moscow calls it ‘intervention’ |
| A contributor to Forbes called Prokopchuk merely an “abuser-in-chief,” while the Washington Post referred to him as “a wolf at Interpol’s door.” | |
| As soon as this news reached US lawmakers, they decided to dissuade delegates from voting for the Russian candidate, saying that Prokopchuk’s election would be “akin to putting a fox in charge of a henhouse.” They insisted that securing his presidency would allow Russia to “harass critics” living abroad and to “aid other authoritarian regimes.” | |
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