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In June 2002, 17 North Korean defectors were reportedly captured by Vietnamese border forces and deported to China. [120] [121] 5 North Korean defectors who surrendered to the Ho Chi Minh City police in May 2004 in an appeal to go to South Korea were reportedly deported to China by Vietnamese authorities on 16 June. [122]
Yeonmi Park. Yeonmi Park (Korean: 박연미; born October 4, 1993) is a North Korean defector, YouTuber, author, and American conservative activist, described as "one of the most famous North Korean defectors in the world". [3] She fled from North Korea to China in 2007 at age 13 before moving to South Korea, then to the United States.
Oh Chong-song (Korean: 오청성; born 1992 or 1993), also spelled Oh Chung-sung, [2] is a North Korean defector. Oh is one of several defectors who have defected to South Korea via the Joint Security Area (JSA). [3][4] Prior to his defection, Oh was an industrial engineer. [5] South Korean investigators concluded Oh "impulsively" defected.
He married a Polish woman in China and moved to Poland in 1960, reportedly settling in Katowice. [1] [6] In 1988, he was given permission to settle in the U.S. [1] He is the subject of the Youth Defense League song "Turncoat" about rejection of a Korean War defector seeking a return to the U.S. [14] [15] White, William (Cpl.). Married and ...
North Korea continued to abduct South Koreans into the 2000s, as is shown by the cases of the Reverend Kim Dong-shik (Korean: 김동식), who was abducted on January 16, 2000, [6] and Jin Gyeong-suk (Korean: 진경숙), a North Korean defector to South Korea who was abducted on August 8, 2004, when she had returned to the China-North Korea ...
James Joseph Dresnok (Korean: 제임스 조새프 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.
The number of defectors reaching South Korea has declined overall since 2017, which Seoul's Unification Ministry said was due to tighter surveillance on the China-North Korea border, though there ...
Kang's father left North Korea for China in 1997 but was caught and imprisoned. [3] Kang was a kotjebi (homeless child). [4] When he was 9 or 10 years old he witnessed a public execution. [5] He ran away from home at age 13. [6] [nb 1] Once Kang's father was released from prison, the family crossed the Tumen river to China in 1998. [3]