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In some cases, defectors voluntarily return to North Korea. Double defectors either take a route through third countries such as China, or may defect directly from South Korea. [149] From 2012 to 2021 the Unification Ministry had recorded 30 defector returns, but there were likely more unrecorded returns. [29]
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.
Wilson was one of five American defectors who never went beyond the eighth grade as a child. He was captured in 1950, during the first days of the Chinese-led counteroffensive that stymied UN gains on territory held by the North Koreans. His lack of education and three years of indoctrination are cited as reasons for his decision to stay. [1]
Kim Byeong-uk, a fellow North Korean defector and the founder of the North Korean Development Institute, has said that Park's stories about life in North Korea are unreliable, telling The Korea Times that Park "exaggerated her past experiences and the way of the North, probably because she wanted to be at the center of attention."
In February 1983, White's parents received a letter from their son, stating that he was happy in North Korea and working as an English teacher. [ 10 ] In November 1985, his parents received a letter penned by a North Korean contact of White, stating that their son had died by drowning in the Ch'ongch'on River in August 1985, and his body was ...
Jerry Wayne Parrish (March 10, 1944 – August 25, 1998), also known by his Korean name Kim Yu-il, [1] was a United States Army corporal who was one of seven American soldiers to defect to North Korea, four of them during the 1960s, in the years after the Korean War.
This category is for North Korean defector individuals or groups of people. For concepts, history, and organizations, apply the most narrow subcategory possible in Category:North Korean defector society.
Jin Gyeong-suk (Korean: 진경숙; 24 June 1980 – Dec 31, 2004), also known as Jin Kyung-sook, was a North Korean woman who, after successfully defecting to South Korea in 2002, was arrested in China two years later for conducting espionage and forcefully deported back to North Korea, where she was tortured and murdered.