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Hanja. 脫北者, 脫北民. Revised Romanization. talbukja, talbungmin. McCune–Reischauer. t'albukcha, t'albungmin. People defect from North Korea for political, material, and personal reasons. Defectors flee to various countries, mainly South Korea. In South Korea, they are referred to by several terms, including "northern refugees " and ...
July 14, 2024. Started by. Yoon Suk Yeol. North Korean Defectors' Day (Korean: 북한이탈주민의 날; Hanja: 北韓離脫住民의 날; RR: Bukanitaljuminui nal) is a holiday celebrated on July 14 in South Korea to commemorate North Korean defectors that have resettled there. Established in 2024, it is celebrated with art, music, food, and ...
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.
Other work. Teacher, actor, translator. 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. After defecting, Dresnok worked as an actor in propaganda films, some directed by Kim Jong Il, [2] and as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
However, many experts on North Korean politics [3] [4] [5] and fellow defectors, [6] have expressed scepticism for Shin's stories of life in North Korea. [7] In January 2015, he recanted many aspects of his story of life in North Korea after a video was released showing Shin's father alive, despite Shin having previously claimed he was dead.