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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 ...
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.
On December 3, 1952, a South Korean Army Aviator student, 2nd Lt. Kug Yong-am, defected with his L-19 51–4794 to Pyongyang, North Korea. In October 1953, a South Korean pilot-instructor Capt. Kim Sung-bai defected with an F-51 Mustang fighter plane to North Korea. On January 20, 1954, a South Korean pilot 2nd Lieutenant Choi Mai-chong ...
The JCS said intelligence also suggests that nuclear-armed North Korea was "producing and providing self-destructible drones" to Russia to further assist Moscow in its fight against Ukraine, and ...
A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea early on Tuesday crossing the militarized border in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported, citing the South's military.
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. [6]
Ri, 52, is the highest-ranking North Korean to defect to South Korea since Tae Yongho, a former minister of the North Korean Embassy in London, arrived in South Korea in 2016. Ri’s defection has ...
The defection of the pilot would be articulated to the global audience that the pilot fled from the perils of Communism and a totalitarian regime for freedom in South Korea. [14] The operation would also create North Korean and Chinese trepidation and mistrust of their pilots.