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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.
North Korean defectors must first enter the North Korean Refugee Protection Center, or Hanawon, run by the National Intelligence Service for investigation when they leave North Korea and enter the Republic of Korea. The interrogation process is conducted in conjunction with the National Intelligence Service, the Ministry of Unification, the ...
An estimated 84,532 [ 1 ] South Koreans were taken to North Korea during the Korean War. In addition, South Korean statistics claim that, since the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953, about 3,800 people have been abducted by North Korea (the vast majority in the late 1970s), 489 of whom were still being held in 2006.
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.
Defection from North Korea. 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.
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.
Last year, 196 North Korean defectors came to Seoul, down from as many as 2,700 a decade ago, South Korean government data showed. Most of those North Korean defectors who recently defected to the ...
Shin Dong-hyuk (born Shin In Geun, 19 November 1982 or 1980 [ 2 ]) is a North Korean -born human rights activist. He claims to be the only prisoner to have successfully escaped from a "total-control zone" grade internment camp in North Korea. His biography, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the ...