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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 ...
This list names the 22 United Nations soldiers and prisoners of war (one Briton and 21 Americans) who declined repatriation to the United Kingdom and United States after the Korean War in favour of remaining in China, and their subsequent fates. Also listed are soldiers who defected to North Korea.
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.
Roy Chung – American defector to North Korea (c. 1957 – c. 2004) James Joseph Dresnok – American defector to North Korea; Charles Robert Jenkins – American Army defector (1940–2017) Jerry Wayne Parrish – American defector to North Korea; Otto Warmbier – American college student imprisoned in North Korea (1994–2017)
Americans in North Korea consist mainly of defectors and prisoners of war during and after the Korean War, as well as their locally born descendants.Additionally, there are occasional tours and group travel which consist of Americans via train or plane from China, some with temporary lodging and stay.
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.
North Korea [176] Robert Thompson: United States Air Force: United States: 1978: Exchanged to the Soviet Union Erhard Mueller: Bundesmarine aviation wing: West Germany: 1978: East Germany [178] Li Jun-gwang: Republic of Korea Army military intelligence: South Korea: 1978: North Korea [179] Roy Chung: United States Army: United States: 1979 ...
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.