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This list names the 22 United Nations soldiers and prisoners of war (one Briton and 21 Americans) who declined repatriation to the United Kingdom and United States after the Korean War in favour of remaining in China, and their subsequent fates. Also listed are soldiers who defected to North Korea.
List of North Korean defectors in South Korea; North Korea–South Korea relations This page was last edited on 6 May 2021, at 05:00 (UTC). Text is available under ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable defectors from North Korea to South Korea. In total, as of 2016, 31,093 North Korean defectors had entered South Korea. By 2020 the number had grown to about 33,000. The dates shown below are the dates that the ...
List of American and British defectors in the Korean War: the 21 Americans and 1 Briton who refused repatriation during Operation Big Switch in 1953 (to remain in China) Larry Allen Abshier (1943–1983) of Urbana, Illinois, deserted in May 1962 at age 19; James Joseph Dresnok (1941–2016) of Richmond, Virginia, deserted on August 15, 1962, at ...
James Joseph Dresnok (Korean: 제임스 조지프 드레스녹, November 24, 1941 – November 2016) was an American defector to North Korea, one of seven U.S. soldiers to defect after the Korean War. After defecting, Dresnok worked as an actor in propaganda films, some directed by Kim Jong Il, [2] and as an English teacher in Pyongyang.
List of American and British defectors in the Korean War: the 21 Americans and 1 Briton who refused repatriation during Operation Big Switch in 1953 (to remain in China) Roy Chung, deserted in June 1979; Joseph T. White (1961–1985) of St Louis, Missouri, deserted in August 1982 at age 20
It was in Panmunjom that U.S. and North Korean forces negotiated and eventually signed the 1953 truce that ended fighting in the Korean War and created the DMZ. There has never been a formal peace ...
List of American and British defectors in the Korean War; Vance Drummond; E. Denis Earp; K. Korean War POWs detained in North Korea; M. Bill Madden (soldier) R.