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Lee Hyeon-seo (Korean: 이현서, born January 1980), [1] best known for her book, The Girl with Seven Names, is a North Korean defector and activist who lives in Seoul, South Korea, [2] where she is a student. She escaped from North Korea and later guided her family out of North Korea through China and Laos. [3]
Vollers reported that she had "been able to verify [Park's] story through family members and fellow defectors who knew her in North Korea and China". [15] In 2023, Park's second book, While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America, was published.
No Kum-sok (Korean: 노금석; January 10, 1932 – December 26, 2022) [1] [2] was a North Korean-born American engineer and aviator who served as a senior lieutenant in the Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force during the Korean War.
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 ...
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is a 2009 nonfiction book by Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick, based on interviews with North Korean refugees from the city of Chongjin who had escaped North Korea. [1] [2] In 2010, the book was awarded the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was also a nonfiction finalist for ...
In 2021, one such North Korean defector Zhu Xianjian escaped prison in China but was quickly recaptured by police. China's policy involves forcibly repatriating North Korean defectors, whom it calls illegal migrants rather than refugees. As such China can deal with such defectors as criminals within their own judicial and legal system. [79]
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.
Harden's fourth book The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot was released in March 2015. [10] It is a dual biography of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea and No Kum-sok, a defector who stole a MiG-15 and landed it in South Korea. [11] Harden's fifth book King of Spies was released in October 2017. It is a biography of Air Force Major ...