

Samantha Garcia
Factors to Successful Defection
In 2023, only 196 defectors in total entered South Korea, only 18% of the total defectors who entered the South Korean borders in 2019.1 The
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Soyoung Kwon, YINKS Researcher
An International Perspective on Human Security of North Korean Refugee Women
North Korean women on the streets of Pyongyang, Oct. 2018 | Image: NK News Written by Kwon, Soyoung for the Yonsei Institute for North...
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Tashia Shupert
A False Sense of Status: North Korean Migrants in South Korean Media Frames
As North Korean defectors and migrants evoke both alarm and sympathy from people worldwide, questions emerge as to the role that popular...
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Eun A Park, NKR Intern
Does the Birth of the Jangmadang Generation Foreshadow the End of the North Korean Regime?
Recently, most North Korean human rights organizations have paid a great deal of attention to North Korean young people commonly known as...
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Ryu Kyung Ah, YINKS Researcher
Why the Preference Towards Third Countries?
Ryu Kyung Ah Researcher Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies As of December 2015, there were 28,795 North Korean defectors in South...
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Somang Kim
Defection and the Allegory of the Cave
By Somang Kim NKR Intern Without a doubt, “sanctions”, “famine”, “threats”, “nuclear”, “human rights”, etc. are the most ostensible and...
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