2023年9月15日 · Just 67 North Korean defectors arrived last year. Inter-Korean dialogue and exchange have ground to a halt. Seoul's Unification Ministry has a new, hawkish head who wants to change the...

2024年1月19日 · South Korea’s Unification Ministry recorded 196 defectors entering the country last year, it said in a briefing. More than half were in their 20s and 30s, and about 84% were women or girls,...

2023年7月16日 · Officials say the facility trains defectors in everything from history and culture to vocational skills and everyday tasks such as buying groceries – things that might look very different inside...

2024年3月9日 · Human traffickers are reportedly attempting to fill that gap by selling North Korean girls and women – some into marriage, while others are enslaved in brothels or made to perform graphic acts...

2022年4月14日 · Here are the stories of three North Korean defectors who managed to escape the Hermit Kingdom. Sungju Lee’s story highlights the obliviousness of North Korea’s more affluent Pyongyang residents to the desperate poverty experienced by much of the country.

2023年4月7日 · In the 2010s, around 1,000 people a year successfully defected from North Korea - the vast majority crossing the northern border with China before seeking asylum in a third country.

2024年8月3日 · North Korea allegedly has a long history of assassinating or making attempts to kill high-level defectors, the estranged relatives of the Kim family living abroad, and top South Korean officials.

North Korean defectors are Koreans who have fled North Korea seeking asylum in South Korea or other nations. Immediately following the truce ending the Korean war, South Korea sought to entice North Koreans to defect to the South, especially high level officials or pilots with their advanced aircraft. From 1953 to the early 1980s, rich rewards ...

2023年11月3日 · Why are the number of North Korean defectors decreasing? We cover the number of defectors by year and map their perilous escape routes.

2024年8月2日 · Unlike most global refugees, who flee from wars or civil conflicts, North Korean defectors are seeking to escape from inhumane persecution by a personality cult regime. Even after risking their...