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North Korean defectors

Index North Korean defectors

Since the division of Korea after World War II and the end of the Korean War (1950–1953), some North Koreans have managed to defect for political, ideological, religious, economic or personal reasons. [1]

152 relations: Adam Johnson (writer), Americans in North Korea, Andrei Lankov, Aomori Prefecture, Barbara Demick, Belgium, Blow Breeze, Capital punishment in North Korea, China, China–North Korea border, Choe Deok-geun, Chongori concentration camp, Chongryon, Chungsan concentration camp, Crossing (2008 film), Cuban exile, Culture, Defection, Denmark, Differential diagnoses of depression, Disease, Division of Korea, Eastern Bloc emigration and defection, Economic migrant, Economy of North Korea, Eurostat, Finland, Foreign relations of North Korea, Fortune Smiles, France, Fukui Prefecture, Gérard de Villiers, Genocide, George W. Bush, Germany, Gobi Desert, Government of South Korea, Hanawon, Hankook Ilbo, HanVoice, Health care, Human rights in North Korea, Identity politics, Ideology, Illegal immigration, Independent Lens, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Japan, Japan Coast Guard, Japanese Red Cross Society, ..., Jilin, JoongAng Ilbo, Juche, Kim Hyon-hui, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Korea Institute for National Unification, Korean ethnic nationalism, Korean People's Army, Korean reunification, Korean War, Koreans in China, Koreatown, Los Angeles, Kyung Hee University, Liaoning, Liberty in North Korea, List of diplomatic missions of South Korea, List of people of Korean descent, Literal translation, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Mental disorder, Mental health, Military, Minbyun, Ministry of Unification, Mongolia, Mongolia–North Korea relations, Mongolia–South Korea relations, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, Netherlands, New Malden, Ningbo, Non-governmental organization, Norbert Vollertsen, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, North Korea–Vietnam relations, North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens, North Korean abductions of South Koreans, North Korean famine, North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, Northeast China, Norway, Nothing to Envy, Noto Peninsula, Nutrition, Park Yeon-mi, Paul Wolfowitz, Penguin Group, People for Successful Corean Reunification, Philippines, Politics of North Korea, Post–Cold War era, Posttraumatic stress disorder, President of the United States, Prisons in North Korea, Propaganda, Radio Free Asia, Refugee, Religion in North Korea, Republic of Korea Armed Forces, Republikflucht, Right of asylum, Russian Far East, Saejowi, SAS (novel series), Seoul Train, Sexual violence, Shenyang, Social exclusion, Somatization, South Korea, South Korea–Vietnam relations, South Korean defectors, South Korean won, Starvation, Stephen Harper, Suicidal ideation, Sweden, Thailand, The Defector: Escape from North Korea, The Independent, The Korea Times, The Nikkei, Tumen River, United Kingdom, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Human Rights Council, United States, Uriminzokkiri, Vietnam, Vietnamese boat people, Water scarcity, World War II, Yaeko Taguchi, Yalu River, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Yodok concentration camp, Zhejiang. Expand index (102 more) »

Adam Johnson (writer)

Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Americans in North Korea

Americans in North Korea consist mainly of defectors and prisoners of war during the Korean War as well as their locally born descendants.

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Andrei Lankov

Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov (Андрей Николаевич Ланьков; born July 26, 1963) is a Russian scholar of Asia and a specialist in Korean studies and Director of Korea Risk Group, the parent company of NK News and NK Pro.

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Aomori Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region.

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Barbara Demick

Barbara Demick is an American journalist.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Blow Breeze

Blow Breeze is a 2016 South Korean weekend drama starring Son Ho-jun, Lim Ji-yeon, Han Joo-wan, Oh Ji-eun, Hwang Bo-ra and Jang Se-hyun.

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Capital punishment in North Korea

Capital punishment is a legal and often-used form of punishment in North Korea for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissidence, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict practiced Juche ideology.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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China–North Korea border

The China–North Korea border is the international border separating China and North Korea.

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Choe Deok-geun

Choe Deok-geun (also spelled Choi Duck-keun or Choi Duk-gun; born 1951 or 1952; died 1 October 1996 in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia) was a South Korean consular official for the Russian Far East who was assassinated by poison in October 1996.

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Chongori concentration camp

Chongori concentration camp (also spelled Jungeori, Jongori or Jeonger-ri) is a reeducation camp in North Korea.

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Chongryon

The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan"." Ministry of Justice.

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Chungsan concentration camp

Chungsan concentration camp (also spelled Jeungsan, Jungsan or Joongsan) is a reeducation camp in North Korea.

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Crossing (2008 film)

Crossing (also known as Keurosing) is a 2008 South Korean film directed by Kim Tae-kyun.

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Cuban exile

The term "Cuban exile" refers to the many Cubans who fled from or left the island of Cuba.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Defection

In politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state in exchange for allegiance to another, in a way which is considered illegitimate by the first state.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Differential diagnoses of depression

Depression, one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorders, is being diagnosed in increasing numbers in various segments of the population worldwide.

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Disease

A disease is any condition which results in the disorder of a structure or function in an organism that is not due to any external injury.

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Division of Korea

The division of Korea between North and South Korea occurred after World War II, ending the Empire of Japan's 35-year rule over Korea in 1945.

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Eastern Bloc emigration and defection

Eastern Bloc emigration and defection was a point of controversy during the Cold War.

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Economic migrant

An economic migrant is someone who emigrates from one region to another to seek an improvement in living standards because the living conditions or job opportunities in the migrant's own region are not sufficient.

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Economy of North Korea

The economy of North Korea is a centrally planned system, where the role of market allocation schemes is limited, though increasing.

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Eurostat

Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Foreign relations of North Korea

The foreign relations of North Korea – officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) – have been shaped by its conflict with capitalist countries like South Korea and its historical ties with world communism.

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Fortune Smiles

Fortune Smiles is a 2015 collection of short stories by American author and novelist Adam Johnson.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fukui Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island.

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Gérard de Villiers

Gérard de Villiers (8 December 1929 – 31 October 2013) was a French writer, journalist and publisher whose ''SAS'' series of spy novels have been major bestsellers.

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Genocide

Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gobi Desert

The Gobi Desert is a large desert region in Asia.

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Government of South Korea

The Executive and Legislative branches operate primarily at the national level, although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions.

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Hanawon

The Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees (Bughan Ital Jumin Jeongchagjiwon Samuso), commonly known as Hanawon (하나원/하나院, "House of Unity") is a South Korean facility for reeducation of North Korean defectors.

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Hankook Ilbo

Hankook Ilbo is a South Korean vernacular (Korean language) daily newspaper published by the Hankook Ilbo Media Group in Seoul, South Korea.

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HanVoice

HanVoice is Canada's largest human rights based organization established in 2007 to assist North Korean refugees.

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Health care

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

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Human rights in North Korea

Human rights in North Korea are severely limited.

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Identity politics

Identity politics refers to political positions based on the interests and perspectives of social groups with which people identify.

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Ideology

An Ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.

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Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration is the illegal entry of a person or a group of persons across a country's border, in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country, with the intention to remain in the country, as well as people who remain living in another country when they do not have the legal right to do so.

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Independent Lens

Independent Lens is a weekly television series airing on PBS presenting documentary films made by independent filmmakers.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 17 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan Coast Guard

The, formerly the Maritime Safety Agency, is the Japanese coast guard.

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Japanese Red Cross Society

The is the Japanese affiliate of the International Red Cross.

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Jilin

Jilin, formerly romanized as Kirin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.

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JoongAng Ilbo

JoongAng Ilbo (The Central Times) is a South Korean daily newspaper published in Seoul, South Korea.

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Juche

Juche (subject;; usually left untranslated or translated as "self-reliance") is the official state ideology of North Korea, described by the government as Kim Il-sung's "original, brilliant and revolutionary contribution to national and international thought".

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Kim Hyon-hui

Kim Hyon-hui (김현희, born 27 January 1962), also known as Ok Hwa, is a former North Korean agent, responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing in 1987, which killed 115 people.

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Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung (or Kim Il Sung) (born Kim Sŏng-ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the first leader of North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994.

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Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il (or Kim Jong Il) (16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was the second Supreme Leader of North Korea, from the death of his father Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader of North Korea, in 1994 until his own death in 2011.

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Kim Jong-un

Kim Jong-un (born 8 January 1983) is a North Korean politician serving as leader of North Korea since 2011 and Leader of the Workers' Party of Korea since 2012.

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Korea Institute for National Unification

The Korea Institute for National Unification is a think tank funded by the South Korean government focusing on issues related to Korean reunification.

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Korean ethnic nationalism

Korean ethnic nationalism, or racial nationalism, is a political ideology and a form of ethnic identity that is widely prevalent in modern North and South Korea.

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Korean People's Army

The Korean People's Army (KPA) is an institution of the Workers' Party of Korea, and constitutes the de facto military force of North Korea.

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Korean reunification

Korean reunification (통일, 統一) refers to the potential reunification of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (commonly known as North Korea), the Republic of Korea (commonly known as South Korea), and the Korean Demilitarized Zone under a single government.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Koreans in China

The population of Koreans in China include millions of descendants of Korean immigrants with citizenship of the People's Republic of China, as well as smaller groups of South and North Korean expatriates, with a total of roughly 2.3 million people, making it the largest ethnic Korean population living outside the Korean Peninsula.

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Koreatown, Los Angeles

Koreatown is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street.

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Kyung Hee University

Kyung Hee University(Korean: 경희대학교) is one of the best private university encompassing an educational system from kindergarten to graduate school with campuses in Seoul, Yongin, Hongneung, and Gwangneung (on the outskirts of Namyangju city), South Korea. Kyung Hee University has 24 colleges, 82 departments and majors, 65 master's and 63 doctorate programs, 18 professional and special graduate schools, and 43 auxiliary research institutions. The university counts Slavoj Žižek, Jason Barker and Emanuel Pastreich among its international professors.http://gradenglish.khu.ac.kr/contents/bbs/bbs_content.html?bbs_cls_cd.

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Liaoning

Liaoning is a province of China, located in the northeast of the country.

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Liberty in North Korea

Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based out of Long Beach, California, United States, and Seoul, South Korea.

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List of diplomatic missions of South Korea

The following is a list of diplomatic missions of South Korea.

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List of people of Korean descent

This is a list of notable Koreans or notable people of Korean descent.

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Literal translation

Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is the rendering of text from one language to another one word at a time (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") with or without conveying the sense of the original whole.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxembourg, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in western Europe.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Mental health

Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness.

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Military

A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.

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Minbyun

Minbyun(민변,民辯) is a South Korean social organization of progressive lawyers.

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Ministry of Unification

The Ministry of Unification is an executive department of the South Korean government aimed at promoting Korean reunification.

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Mongolia

Mongolia (Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia.

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Mongolia–North Korea relations

Mongolia–North Korea relations (Монгол, БНАСАУ-ын харилцаа, 몽골-조선민주주의인민공화국 관계) are the historic and current bilateral relations between Mongolia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).

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Mongolia–South Korea relations

Mongolia–South Korea relations (Монгол, Өмнөд Солонгосын харилцаа, 대한민국-몽골 관계) are foreign relations between South Korea and the Mongolia.

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Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation

Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is one of the leading South Korean television and radio network companies.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New Malden

New Malden is a suburb in south-west London, in the boroughs of Kingston and Merton, and is from Charing Cross.

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Ningbo

Ningbo, formerly written Ningpo, is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province in China. It comprises the urban districts of Ningbo proper, three satellite cities, and a number of rural counties including islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Its port, spread across several locations, is among the busiest in the world and the municipality possesses a separate state-planning status. As of the 2010 census, the entire administrated area had a population of 7.6 million, with 3.5 million in the six urban districts of Ningbo proper. To the north, Hangzhou Bay separates Ningbo from Shanghai; to the east lies Zhoushan in the East China Sea; on the west and south, Ningbo borders Shaoxing and Taizhou respectively.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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Norbert Vollertsen

Norbert Vollertsen (born 10 February 1958 in Düsseldorf) is a German doctor and human rights activist.

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North Hamgyong Province

North Hamgyong Province (Hamgyŏngbukdo) is the northernmost province of North Korea.

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North Korea

North Korea (Chosŏn'gŭl:조선; Hanja:朝鮮; Chosŏn), officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (abbreviated as DPRK, PRK, DPR Korea, or Korea DPR), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

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North Korea–Vietnam relations

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam established formal diplomatic relations on January 31, 1950.

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North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens

The abductions of Japanese citizens from Japan by agents of the North Korean government took place during a period of six years from 1977 to 1983.

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North Korean abductions of South Koreans

An estimated 84,532 South Koreans were taken to North Korea during the Korean War.

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North Korean famine

The North Korean famine, which together with the accompanying general economic crisis are known as the Arduous March or The March of Suffering (고난의 행군) in North Korea, occurred in North Korea from 1994 to 1998.

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North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004

Signed into U.S. law by President George W. Bush on October 18, 2004, the North Korean Human Rights Act is intended to promote human rights and freedom to North Korean refugees by.

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Northeast China

Northeast China or Dongbei is a geographical region of China.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Nothing to Envy

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is a 2009 part-novelization of interviews with refugees from Chongjin, North Korea, written by Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick.

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Noto Peninsula

Landsat image with high-resolution data from Space Shuttle Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan.

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Nutrition

Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.

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Park Yeon-mi

Park Yeon-mi (or Yeonmi Park; born 4 October 1993) is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who escaped to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009.

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Paul Wolfowitz

Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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Penguin Group

The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House.

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People for Successful Corean Reunification

People for Successful Corean Reunification (PSCORE) is a non-governmental organization based in Seoul, South Korea, and Washington D.C. in the United States.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Politics of North Korea

The politics of North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) takes place within the framework of the official state philosophy, Juche, a concept created by Hwang Jang-yop and later attributed to Kim Il-sung.

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Post–Cold War era

The post–Cold War era is the period in world history from the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 9:00 am,December 26, 1991 to the present.

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Posttraumatic stress disorder

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)Acceptable variants of this term exist; see the Terminology section in this article.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Prisons in North Korea

Conditions inside North Korean prison camps are unsanitary and life-threatening.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

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Radio Free Asia

Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting corporation that broadcasts and publishes online news, information, and commentary to listeners in East Asia while "advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy." Founded in the 1950s as an anti-communist propaganda operation, RFA is currently funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an independent agency of the United States government responsible for all non-military, international broadcasting sponsored by the U.S. government (such as Radio Free Europe), which appoints the board of RFA.

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Refugee

A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (for more detail see legal definition).

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Religion in North Korea

There are no known official statistics of religions in North Korea.

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Republic of Korea Armed Forces

The Republic of Korea Armed Forces, also known as the ROK Armed Forces, are the armed forces of South Korea.

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Republikflucht

"Republikflucht" ("desertion from the republic") and "Republikflüchtling(e)" ("deserter(s) from the republic") were the terms used by authorities in the German Democratic Republic (GDR – East Germany) to describe the process of and the person(s) leaving the GDR for a life in West Germany or any other Western (non-Warsaw Pact) country (Eastern Bloc emigration and defection).

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Right of asylum

The right of asylum (sometimes called right of political asylum, from the Ancient Greek word ἄσυλον) is an ancient juridical concept, under which a person persecuted by his own country may be protected by another sovereign authority, such as another country or church official, who in medieval times could offer sanctuary.

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Russian Far East

The Russian Far East (p) comprises the Russian part of the Far East - the extreme eastern territory of Russia, between Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean.

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Saejowi

Saejowi (hangul: 새조위), also known as The Organization for One Korea (hangul: 새롭고 하나된 조국을 위한 모임), operates in Seoul, South Korea, as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that assists North Korean defectors with settlement in South Korea.

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SAS (novel series)

Son Altesse Sérénissime (His Serene Highness) is a series of espionage novels created by French author Gérard de Villiers, featuring prince Malko Linge as the lead character.

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Seoul Train

Seoul Train is a 2004 documentary film that deals with the dangerous journeys of North Korean defectors fleeing through or to China.

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Sexual violence

Sexual violence is any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion, acts to traffic a person or acts directed against a person's sexuality, regardless of the relationship to the victim.

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Shenyang

Shenyang, formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden or Fengtian, is the provincial capital and the largest city of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, as well as the largest city in Northeast China by urban population.

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Social exclusion

Social exclusion, or social marginalization, is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.

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Somatization

Somatization is a tendency to experience and communicate psychological distress in the form of somatic symptoms and to seek medical help for them.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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South Korea–Vietnam relations

South Korea and Vietnam established formal diplomatic relations on 22 December 1992, though the two countries had already had various historical contacts long before that.

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South Korean defectors

South Korean defectors are South Korean citizens who have defected to North Korea.

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South Korean won

The won (원,; symbol: ₩; code: KRW) or the Korean Republic Won is the currency of South Korea.

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Starvation

Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life.

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Stephen Harper

Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian economist, entrepreneur, and retired politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada, from February 6, 2006, to November 4, 2015.

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Suicidal ideation

Suicidal ideation, also known as suicidal thoughts, is thinking about or having an unusual preoccupation with suicide.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Defector: Escape from North Korea

The Defector: Escape from North Korea is a 2012 documentary film about North Korean defectors, directed by Korean-Canadian filmmaker Ann Shin.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Korea Times

The Korea Times is the oldest of three English-language newspapers published daily in South Korea.

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The Nikkei

The Nikkei,, is Nikkei, Inc.'s flagship publication and the world's largest financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding three million.

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Tumen River

The Tumen River, also known as the Tuman or Duman River, is a long river that serves as part of the boundary between China, North Korea and Russia, rising on the slopes of Mount Paektu and flowing into the Sea of Japan.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Nations Commission on Human Rights

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a United Nations programme with the mandate to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people, and assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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United Nations Human Rights Council

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Uriminzokkiri

Uriminzokkiri is a state-controlled website that provides news from North Korea's Central News Agency.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Vietnamese boat people

Vietnamese boat people (Thuyền nhân Việt Nam), also known simply as boat people, were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

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Water scarcity

Water scarcity is the lack of fresh water resources to meet water demand.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yaeko Taguchi

Yaeko Taguchi (田口 八重子; Taguchi Yaeko; born August 10, 1955) is a Japanese citizen, one of several kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Yalu River

The Yalu River, also called the Amrok River or Amnok River, is a river on the border between North Korea and China.

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Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture

Yanbian (Chosŏn'gŭl: 연변, Yeonbyeon) is an autonomous prefecture in northeastern Jilin Province, China.

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Yodok concentration camp

Yodok concentration camp (also romanized Yodŏk, Yodeok, or Yoduk) was a political prison camp in North Korea.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_defectors

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