Thae Yong-ho, a former high-ranking North Korean diplomat who defected in 2016, will run for office in South Korea’s upcoming legislative elections in April, an official from the country’s main opposition party said Monday.

Thae, who has become an outspoken activist and public speaker since coming to South Korea with his family almost four years ago, will stand as a candidate for the conservative Liberty Korea Party (LKP).

“I think he would probably be the first North Korean defector” to run for a constituency seat in the National Assembly, LKP official Kim Hyong-o was quoted as having said by South