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This is a list of notable defectors from North Korea to South Korea. In total, as of 2016, 31,093 North Korean defectors had entered South Korea.[1] By 2020 the number had grown to about 33,000.[2] The dates shown below are the dates that the defectors arrived in South Korea.

  1. ^ "Policies North Korean Defectors". Ministry of Unification. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. ^ Choe, Sang-hun (27 July 2020). "North Korea Thinks He Brought Covid-19. The South Wanted to Arrest Him". New York Times.

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