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All posts tagged "defector"

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  Kim Jong-un’s uncle defected to US amid N. Korean power struggle

  By Brian Han In North Korea, being part of the leadership’s family by no means excludes you from danger. The uncle of current leader Kim Jong-un, Lee Kang, decided to come out of the woodwork Wednesday. He...

  • Posted December 9, 2015
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  More key officials fleeing N. Korea amid leader’s brutal rule: source

  By Brian Han North Korea’s top government and military officials are fleeing from their own country mostly due to Kim Jong-un’s reign of terror. It should come as no surprise considering that any form of dissent whether...

  • Posted November 23, 2015
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  Almost 700 N. Korean defectors’ whereabouts unknown

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s Ministry of Unification on Sunday said almost 700 North Korean defectors’ whereabouts are unknown, casting concerns over the country’s settlement support system. The ministry said it has failed to locate 688 North...

  • Posted September 28, 2015
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  65 N. Koreans cross sea, land borders to defect to South over 5 yrs

  SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) — A total of 65 North Koreans have crossed the tightly-patrolled land and sea borders with South Korea to defect to the capitalist country since 2010 with 15 of them breaking the borders...

  • Posted September 8, 2015
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  N. Korean soldier defected to South due to ‘chronic assaults’ in military

  SEOUL, June 16 (Yonhap) — The teenage North Korean soldier who defected to South Korea this week left his barracks earlier this month and finally crossed the border after a week-long journey, the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

  • Posted June 16, 2015
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  N. Korean defectors to learn about democracy in US

  By Lee Ji-hye A Washington-based North Korean NGO is organizing a student program for North Korean defectors to participate in a U.S. leadership program next month. Hosted by the Korean American Sharing Movement (KASM), 10 students from...

  • Posted June 11, 2015
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  North Korea defector to world: Look beyond ‘beatings, camps’

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A North Korean defector whose memoir describes his meeting with Kim Jong Il says the world’s intense focus on the regime’s human rights record fails to see the full scope of its inhumanity...

  • Posted February 6, 2015
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