Under leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea has adopted a different strategy when it comes to defectors, displaying re-defectors on national television and bringing the families of defectors to Panmunjom.
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Once you threaten to punish potential defectors, and those defectors buck your threat, future threats look a lot weaker.
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Even if families do not view defectors as traitors, contact between North Korean defectors and relatives back home is difficult, if not impossible.
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Outside reporters also often rely on defectors from the country, but few defectors arrive with access to valuable intelligence on its nuclear programs or top leaders.
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North Korean defectors are becoming social media stars in South Korea North Korean defectors are becoming social media stars in South Korea This segment originally aired Jan.
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NKSC said its findings were based on interviews with 14 high-ranking defectors, five other defectors, and six North Korean officials on trips to China, the country's closest ally.
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He has represented organizations formed by North Korean defectors in South Korea and the United States, as well as North Korean defectors in obtaining citizenship in the United States.
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But he was also an on-the-ground inspiration to its fighters, according to dozens of ISIS defectors we have interviewed in depth for our ISIS Defectors interview project.
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Even without knowing with certainty the identity of the hackers, experts told the BBC that the breach may make defectors more fearful, and future defectors less willing to come forward.
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"For decades, high-level defectors have been the crown jewels of human intelligence collection," according to Joe Augustyn, a retired CIA officer who ran the defectors program for three years.
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Still, many defectors -- like Han -- struggle to find employment.
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She leads the Breaking the ISIS Brand – ISIS Defectors Interviews Project at ICSVE and is the author and co-author of seven books including: ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate.
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For now, the U.N. refugee agency, whose logo appears on tents seen inside the courtyard of a hotel housing defectors, is Colombia's main partner in supporting Venezuelans under asylum proceedings, including the defectors.
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Many defectors are working alongside the government they once fought.
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Democrats, however, need four defectors to secure the new information.
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"People think that defectors have it easy here," he said.
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Some might even join past defectors in competing for Australia.
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Of course, support for defectors would not be a panacea.
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As many as 200,000 defectors are living secretly in China.
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Some defectors were also placed on assassination lists, he said.
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Zeid said his office received reports of defectors carrying poison.
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From there, the South Korean government flies defectors to Seoul.
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The group of defectors was larger than they had expected.
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Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors.
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Only a handful of the defectors came through the DMZ.
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The government denies neglecting North Korean defectors and their children.
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The 13 GOP defectors were Jones and New York Reps.
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Trump has lobbed attacks at some potential defectors, calling Sen.
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The solution for Democrats is not to chase Trump defectors.
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It was the largest number of Democratic defectors since 1872.
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The returning defectors are a propaganda boon for Mr. Kim.
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In February she was tapped to support the arriving defectors.
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Several defectors, including one who became a South Korean television celebrity, have disappeared in recent years only to turn up later in North Korean state media, criticizing South Korea and the fate of defectors.
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Although there are no official statistics showing exactly how many North Koreans have fled their country, South Korea says it has welcomed more than 260,000 defectors since 43, including 1,137 defectors last year alone.
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Robertson called on China not to deport the would-be defectors.
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Trump has already demonstrated his willingness to go after Republican defectors.
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In the past, China has sent defectors back to North Korea.
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"Defectors are our greatest treasure and an untapped resource," she said.
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Other Republican defectors say they are acting independently of the campaign.
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The names, birth dates and addresses of 997 defectors was leaked.
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They included taxi drivers, Iraqi soldiers and defectors from Islamic State.
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Fernandez debuted in the middle of a boom of Cuban defectors.
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In the past, defectors have returned to the country under duress.
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It's likely they thought Beshear would appeal to Obama coalition defectors.
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None of the defectors were likely to vote for it anyway.
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Defectors who cross the Koreas' land or sea border are rare.
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For North Korean defectors, this is a nightmare come to life.
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I would guess there will be between three and six defectors.
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They claim to be in contact with hundreds of willing defectors.
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Chinese security was on high alert, searching for North Korean defectors.
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Instead, the defectors are expected to recant all of their views.
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Thirty-three of the defectors said they had been raped there.
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They have also answered some defectors, journalists and critics with lawsuits.
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Guards on both sides stay alert against possible intruders or defectors.
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The pair's efforts failed, as their fellow potential Republican defectors, Sens.
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"Our fate is worse than that of army defectors," he said.
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Rand Paul and Susan Collins, the two Republican defectors, already have.
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The leader of the alleged intruders appears to be a Yale-educated human rights activist who was once jailed in China while trying to rescue North Korean defectors living in hiding, according to activists and defectors.
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The number of defectors arriving successfully in the South has dropped since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took power in late 2011, a trend defectors and experts say may be linked to a crackdown by Pyongyang.
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Deserting is irrevocable, Somali officials say, because Shabaab jails or executes defectors.
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The North Korean defectors had fallen into the hands of Chinese police.
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South Koreans, including defectors, must seek government approval to visit the North.
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He doesn't like to be told no, and he doesn't like defectors.
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Some are staffed by defectors who hope to encourage others to flee.
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More vigorous efforts might also be made to recruit North Korean defectors.
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I didn't know Chinese people hated us [North Korean defectors] that much.
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Reuters could not independently verify the testimony of defectors in the report.
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Mr Maamau complains the defectors never even raised their grievances with him.
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I learn from the defectors sitting across the table how leaving works.
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New names surfacing as possible defectors on next week's vote include Sens.
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There have been reports of several other defectors with similar health problems.
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The opposition-led parliament has drafted an amnesty law to protect defectors.
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Democrats were expected to pick up some GOP defectors on their proposal.
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She left North Korea in 2007, according to the defectors' emergency committee.
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Each square was linked to digital testimonials, including audio files, from defectors.
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Potential Dem defectors face pressure on impeachment MORE opposing Medicare for all?
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A look at issue preferences indicates wooing back defectors will be difficult.
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Their strategy envisions a unified caucus, accompanied by a few Democratic defectors.
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But then again, you have a chart showing that these Bernie-Trump defectors weren't particularly opposed to free trade deals: For those suggesting this is about trade, note that opposition to TPP is not dramatically different among defectors.
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Defectors accuse him of running his own intelligence agency to intimidate his enemies.
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Some defectors have cited harsh working conditions as reasons for abandoning their posts.
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A similar fate has befallen most other defectors since the second world war.
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He had lived in Dandong and helped North Korean defectors in the past.
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Ji and three other defectors worked their way through the jungles in Laos.
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Later, he tells Philip this man is there to protect them, as defectors.
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It only takes three defectors to kill the bill in the upper chamber.
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But the Chinese government — they're not doing anything good for North Korean defectors.
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In the Oval Office, defectors told their heart-wrenching stories to the president.
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Police officers are assigned to each of the defectors to ensure their security.
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Even comparatively well-off, highly educated defectors struggle to find white-collar jobs.
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Somalia's capacity to manage the flow of defectors is at a breaking point.
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For Labour's defectors, however, it's probably a case of too little, too late.
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The vast majority of defectors have traveled through China to reach the South.
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The defectors who made it out alive, and are willing to speak out.
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It'd be a coup if they could get those defectors, but it's unlikely.
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The first nine North Korean defectors arrived in the United States in 2006.
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We gathered some insights into the reclusive country's team from defectors and analysts.
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"These children are more disadvantaged than North Korean defectors themselves," Mr. Chun said.
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Defectors to the South have cited the existence of parasites and abysmal nutrition.
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Second, this isn't an election where a couple defectors would make a difference.
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Most defectors travel first through China and Southeast Asia before reaching the South.
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He has since been out of work, and his fellow defectors shun him.
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When defectors reach South Korea, they are given 8 million won ($433,704) cash.
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Democrats need only four GOP defectors to secure the appearance of new witnesses.
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So they need to win at least some of these Freedom Caucus defectors.
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The defectors joined the Free Syrian Army, a loose organization of rebel groups.
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Now, military defectors have crossed over with stories of hunger, corruption and abuse.
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If only those blue-collar defectors of 483 can be persuaded to listen.
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But researchers said they did find alterations in the chromosomes of four defectors.
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Defectors were regularly booted onto the street as officials failed to make payments.
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One big attraction for broadcast television defectors is the creative freedom offered by streaming.
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Its people were buying time to lure back the defectors before a floor vote.
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Most Indians assume that powerful parties will use bribery and extortion to lure defectors.
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While arrests of defectors are not new, multiple activists say it's becoming more common.
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Last year alone, the country received 1,137 defectors -- and 85% of them were women.
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There are a lot of North Korean spies in Yanji trying to catch defectors.
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Last year alone, the country received 1,243 defectors -- and 85% of them were women.
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Deciding to move on But other defectors are still waiting to be called upon.
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The upscale moderate defectors the Democrats keep expecting to show up still haven't appeared.
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The priority for North Korean defectors remains the transformation of the state they've fled.
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Senior defectors from the regime typically flee abroad, where they are still not safe.
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Map shows alleged killing sites across North Korea, based on interviews with 375 defectors
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His own party has welcomed light-fingered defectors from the PDP into its ranks.
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There are unconfirmed reports that they have taken hostage the families of some defectors.
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For one thing, it would raise questions about Britain's ability to keep defectors safe.
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North Koreans are often encouraged to report their neighbors for lacking patriotism, defectors say.
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But now the bill has both moderate and conservative defectors, making compromise extremely challenging.
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There's actually a cement wall to prevent defectors from coming over to the South.
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But Hodari, Bennett, and the sales representative each said their companies saw few defectors.
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The deep skepticism expressed by the North Korean defectors is also echoed in Washington.
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Michael Hayden told CNN that defectors don't just help with current or past intelligence.
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It'd be a coup if they could get those defectors, but it's very unlikely.
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Republicans had "one shot" to repeal ObamaCare, he told conservative defectors in one meeting.
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The South Korean state said that this is the first significant hack involving defectors.
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In the Senate, it only takes three GOP defectors to kill the repeal effort.
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Pork is common, but defectors also talked of eating dog meat, rabbit, and badger.
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She was immensely protective of "Now on My Way" and its cast of defectors.
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Many of those defectors travel on to Southeast Asia and eventually to South Korea.
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Colombia insists the defectors are non-combatant asylum-seekers who've left military life behind.
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The Colombians say they haven't secured any additional commitments for support of the defectors.
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Inside, a choir of defectors' children practiced with teenage volunteers from South Korean families.
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North Korea also goes after those defectors who manage to make it to freedom.
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But Democrats have their own list of possible defectors who could vote to acquit.
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The families of some of the defectors were also interviewed by CNN in May.
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Word gets back to the commune that some defectors have called it a cult.
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But House Democratic leaders told Axios they feel confident and don't expect many defectors.
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Among the high-profile defectors from ALEC's ranks were Coca-Cola, Amazon, and Walmart.
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Kim Seung-eun, a pastor who has helped hundreds of defectors reach South Korea.
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Analysts for the CIJA found wealthy defectors in the Gulf states, Turkey, and Europe.
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Moreover, only 30 defectors volunteered for the government-funded checkups, which were not mandatory.
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Most defectors avoid such a perilous crossing to the South, instead fleeing through China.
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They're selected for their talent, looks and regime loyalty, according to many North Korean defectors.
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Many defectors, however, say the waitresses abroad have better lives than they would back home.
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Most defectors were sent to hotels by Colombian immigration, military officials or Venezuelan opposition officials.
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China says North Korean defectors are illegal migrants who flee their country for economic reasons.
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The video shows North Korean defectors waiting in a vehicle outside a Chinese police station.
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In 2018 about 1,137 North Korean defectors entered South Korea, compared to 2,706 in 2011.
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Its National Intelligence Service, which conducts initial screening of North Korean defectors, declined to comment.
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There are also delegates for self-ruled Taiwan, made up of defectors and their descendents.
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Defectors would describe atrocities they had knowledge of, allowing the researchers to note the locations.
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But since then, the ranks of his loyalists have seen a steady stream of defectors.
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PILLSBURY: The defectors provide a kind of opposite side of the story from Chinese officials.
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A journey that takes months for most defectors took these North Koreans just two days.
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During interviews with journalists, defectors often insist on anonymity because of fears for their families.
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The experience of integrating defectors from the North in the South has not been encouraging.
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Some radio stations play content to recently arrived defectors to check that it is relevant.
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"Now so many defectors are fearing they, too, might somehow be deported," Jung told Reuters.
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Intelligence sources told Insider that defectors from Russia often used their real names despite warnings.
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He also met with several North Korean defectors during an Oval Office meeting in February.
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A spokesman on Wednesday highlighted efforts to help North Korean defectors settle in the South.
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Those who are career politicians are defectors from parties on France's political left and right.
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Eight defectors told Reuters they ate much the same thing as people in the South.
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Without a guide, Mr. Ji and three other defectors trekked through the jungles of Laos.
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Defectors periodically appear in London or Seoul, and offer insights, but few are true insiders.
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On a case-by-case basis, the C.I.A. decides whether to give defectors new identities.
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Military defectors in exile may muster enough foreign support to affect some sort of change.
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Such pronouncements are common from defectors, but Mr. Thae had been a longtime, faithful diplomat.
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There are around 30,000 North Korean defectors and refugees registered with the South Korean government.
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Most of the defectors are among the top Democratic targets in the 220006 midterm elections.
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While the border is protected, a bribe or two can unlock deliveries, according to defectors.
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Almost every major spy case is finally solved thanks to defectors from the other side.
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For them, and for most other urban defectors, the house hunting is the easier part.
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More than 70 percent of the defectors who make it to the South are women.
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Rohrabacher joins board of cannabis company MORE — were among the 22019 GOP defectors last week.
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For the defectors, the news is simply another grim development in their drawn-out saga.
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Colombia, meanwhile, has been left on its own in solving the problem of the defectors.
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But many of the Cuban defectors have languished in the minor leagues or were released.
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North Korea defectors stage an anti-North Korea protest in South Korea in September 2017Photo: Chung Sung-Jun (Getty)Hackers stole the personal information of 20113 North Korean defectors after accessing a South Korean resettlement agency's database, according to the South Korean Unification Ministry.
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Other doctors have also described removing various types of worms and parasites from North Korean defectors.
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Anyone found consuming media outside the official channels is severely punished, according to reports from defectors.
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Chun said his Christian aid organization, Durihana, has helped over 1,000 defectors reach Seoul since 1999.
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Another option offers the defectors a three-month stipend to help get them on their feet.
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The protests against Ms Park have also stirred debate among many defectors living in the South.
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You might expect a constant flow of defectors from a country as unpleasant as North Korea.
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Of the party's candidates for West Bengal's 42 seats, nine are recent defectors from other parties.
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The defectors showed an apparent willingness to flee the North, Reuters reported , citing an unnamed source.
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They're mostly in their twenties and early thirties, college graduates or defectors from offshore call centers.
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Some defectors have been allowed to return to visit Cuba sfter years of being shut out.
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However, the seven defectors represent the biggest pool of "faithless" electors in more than 2900 years.
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There are also delegates for self-ruled Taiwan, mostly made up of defectors and their descendants.
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In April 2012 a group of defectors, most of them Tutsi, formed an armed group, M23.
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Sudan has the only proven effective rehabilitation and reintegration program for terrorist defectors on the planet.
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Q. What message do you want to convey to the Chinese government about North Korean defectors?
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But lucrative contracts for Cuban defectors have uneven success rates, and the Mets will be cautious.
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It also offers humanitarian assistance to North Korean refugees, defectors and migrants outside of the country.
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In a recent poll of defectors, 98% said they had used USBs to store illegal content.
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China should repeal its policy on repatriating defectors and distance itself from such a brutal regime.
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There are other well-known North Korean defectors who speak English and have international book deals.
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But the South Korean government is aware of a North Korean hacking group that targets defectors.
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These defectors usually go through China and then to Southeast Asia, where they apply for asylum.
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For the American center-left, even a small group of defectors would have a disastrous effect.
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There might have been some strategic decision to go rather harder after defectors, I don't know.
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As well as propaganda, North Korean defectors say they were taught minute details about the South.
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They also saw the retaliation by Nxivm leaders against its critics and defectors, former participants said.
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He also reminds everyone that enemies -- and presumably this would include defectors -- can be treated roughly.
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Now these days, KGB defectors who are still breathing are a little hard to come by.
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This goes far beyond defectors to the economy more broadly, and Idaho's tech scene shows why.
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The Democrats would need to secure at least four Republican defectors to approve hearing new testimony.
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China is North Korea's main ally and is known for sending defectors back to the North.
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If McConnell gets his preferred trial, it's hard to imagine more than one or two defectors.
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The arrangement attracted more Democratic defectors in time — if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, basically.
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SEOUL — Kim Ryon-hui is among the 30,000 North Korean defectors now living in South Korea.
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The men appeared to be fishermen whose boat had trouble, rather than defectors, the police said.
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Several of the defectors have already come back to Canada, and are being watched by police.
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The Unification Ministry, in charge of inter-Korean affairs, said in a statement that it would take steps to improve defectors' rights in line with recommendations from the commission contained in the report, which urged the ministry to adhere to its rule of protecting defectors' identities.
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The employee reportedly wasn't following protocols to keep North Korea defectors' data encrypted and on offline computers.
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New research from McAfee suggests hackers in North Korea are targeting defectors with malware-infected Android apps.
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It's the ultimate goal for North Korean defectors since, once there, they can ask for refugee status.
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If caught by the Chinese authorities, they face repatriation to North Korea where defectors are often tortured.
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Facing a 51-49 Republican majority, they need a unanimous caucus and at least two Republican defectors.
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Some defectors have sneaked in via China and appeared on North Korean TV to criticize the South.
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Hundreds of Syrians, including army defectors, have since been deported without due process, according to aid groups.
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The group warned that the survey sample based on the testimony of defectors, was not necessarily representative.
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But it's not clear whether they were attempted defectors or fishermen who've strayed too far from land.
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Relatives of defectors are often sent to prison camps or used by the regime as propaganda tools.
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The interviewer asked one of the defectors to explain how he had gotten out of the country.
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Other Team USA-defectors include Cyclist Tejay van Garderen, and NBA stars Steph Curry and LeBron James.
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The defectors have said they are willing to work with the new government to repeal the laws.
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"I think defectors like me, we should all unite together to bring down Kim Jong Un's regime."
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Refuge and regret The path to South Korea is often a harrowing one for North Korean defectors.
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Steve Israel of New York expressed outrage at the congressional defectors in a statement on Tuesday night.
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The prices, I understand, are 3,000 to 5,000 renminbi [about $460 to $770] if you report defectors.
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Defectors are flowing out of Al-Shabaab, yet there are not enough places for them to go.
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Getting out Despite ongoing terrorist attacks by Al-Shabaab, defectors tell me the group is in disarray.
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The defectors left China last Wednesday and arrived in South Korea the following day, traveling through Thailand.
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There are about 29,000 defectors in South Korea, which is constitutionally required to accept all North Koreans.
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ISIS defectors are credible voices who know there is no utopian state and no justice under ISIS.
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Both Guaidó and defectors outside Venezuela have called on the military to rise up against the government.
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He was warned of what had happened to Soviet defectors — prison and potentially execution — who had returned.
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Of the protests, Trump charged that police should begin arresting defectors because they're "violating all of us."
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"Come on in, the water's fine," Mr. Cruz said to prospective defectors at his news conference. Mrs.
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Defectors and Amnesty International said the illicit trade in Chinese mobile phones in the North was growing.
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It is, however, the first time Waymo has taken public legal action against any of its defectors.
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North Korean defectors living in the shadows in South Korea, many of whom are struggling to assimilate.
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Sometimes China quietly responds to such requests by releasing the defectors; more often, there is no answer.
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According to defectors, its members are chosen using intense background checks and a very strict appearance criteria.
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But Colombian officials said they haven't yet secured more funding for the defectors from any additional sources.
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Detainees and defectors have risked their lives to tell their families, and the world, of their plight.
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In that climate, Swift argued, defectors like Hoda—young, repentant, and digitally fluent—are unique propaganda assets.
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Part of the danger comes from vicious human traffickers who lure defectors into forced labor or prostitution.
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She will need to win over some of those defectors for the final floor vote on Jan.
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North Korean prosecutors also accused him of helping "lure and abduct" North Korean citizens, calling them defectors.
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After 10 years in the military, she heard about defectors to South Korea and decided to leave.
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Republicans have a narrow majority in the State Senate, thanks to Democratic defectors aligned with the Republicans.
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It has welcomed turncoats and defectors from other parties, many with a history of corruption and wrongdoing.
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As soon as I was done with "Defectors," I ordered all the rest from my local bookshop.
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Party membership used to be the key to better jobs and status in North Korea, defectors said.
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Some smugglers also collect their fees after the defectors arrive in the South and start earning wages.
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Now, the big question is who will reel in those Biden defectors in the future primary races.
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They said they did not have enough medical data from the defectors to produce any conclusive findings.
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That means that a handful of defectors can't humiliate McConnell in a leadership election on the floor.
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If Washington tried to strike certain red notices, it would only confirm the importance of those defectors.
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Early defectors made their way out even before the country gained its independence from Ethiopia in 2000.
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Early defectors made their way out even before the country gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993.
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So far, they say, none of the 45 mid- and high-level defectors have reneged on their agreement.
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Pyongyang considers it a hostile act and tells its citizens the leaflets are South Korean propaganda, defectors say.
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The men said they were fishermen, not defectors, and Japan was arranging to send them home, it added.
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Defectors say many North Koreans lead double lives, earning money in unofficial market places to supplement state incomes.
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North Koreans who are returned face severe punishment, torture and even execution, according to defectors and rights organizations.
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Trolls have accused Lee of taking advantage of the largesse of the state, which assists defectors with resettlement.
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Now, some defectors are becoming internet famous by shedding light on the most mysterious country in the world.
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The most recent version of the Senate replacement bill had four defectors, split among moderates and conservatives. Sens.
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Why it matters: There are now enough defectors to seriously threaten the bill's fate on the House floor.
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Defectors who have left North Korea report that many people secretly watch foreign media, especially South Korean entertainment.
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An said returning defectors are considered highly valuable for propaganda purposes by Pyongyang, and may be treated generously.
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The amount charged per kilogram increased by approximately 45 percent, according to information culled by North Korean defectors.
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North Korean defectors to South Korea typically travel through China to a third country before reaching the South.
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But can they at least pretend they don't see the defectors, on the train or on the bus?
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Defectors from the North have previously testified to having witnessed public executions and rights abuses at detention facilities.
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More and more people are angered over the existence of the IDC, staging protests at defectors' town halls.
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From prior experience with defectors, he knew the thousand questions flooding the scientist's mind: What about my family?
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The 13 defectors — 12 women and a male supervisor — are children of the North's party and administration elites.
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Security experts and North Korean defectors have placed the numbers in North Korea's cyber army in the thousands.
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Lee says he has no interest in going into the South Korean military, as other defectors have done.
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It was there that he met North Korean defectors and learned about the brutal realities in the North.
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But he said even defectors were never free because the regime could target family members they left behind.
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She also pointed out that the Kremlin has conducted "state-sponsored assassinations" before and considers defectors legitimate targets.
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The White House stonewalling has sparked a new round of Democratic defectors from Pelosi's no-impeachment position. Rep.
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And many Trump defectors are choosing to vote for third-party candidates, which has also contributed to Mrs.
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The number of defectors began picking up again this year, with 749 arriving in the first six months.
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Andrei claims that stories of people giving each other crystal meth were common among defectors from the North.
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"Of all the recent high-level defectors, I am the only one to have gone public," said Thae.
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While the 3 Series stood still, competitors pushed hard to win over defectors from the German sales juggernaut.
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The defectors, the hosts and the South 22018 milled around, cracking jokes and catching up like old friends.
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It also did not seem likely that the dozen defectors would face retaliation from inside the Republican conference.
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He's made more than 20113 trips to the Korean Peninsula and interviewed an array of North Korean defectors.
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Former members said that, inside Nxivm, they are being portrayed as defectors who want to destroy the group.
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After several months a new force of military defectors and armed rebels was formed, the Free Syrian Army.
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The offensive has been reinforced by elite army units and Iranian-backed militias, the defectors and residents said.
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Over 30,000 defectors now live in South Korea, and they've helped remove some of the sense of mystery.
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The British government provides a stipend, but in the past defectors have protested that it is too small.
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Will Philip, upset over Paige and rattled by news of the defectors' murders, take even more drastic steps?
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She is now the owner of a matchmaking company, helping North Korean defectors find love in the South.
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Many North-Korean defectors make a living by telling their stories through TV shows, public talks or books.
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A revolving set of turncoats and some new defectors from other parties promptly join this new king's party.
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North Korean defectors are closely supervised by the government for five years, but that time period had expired.
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The Iranian organization was originally formed by Shiite defectors in 1982 in response to the Iran-Iraq war.
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Separately, 215 defectors lost such subsidies in the last five years for committing various crimes in South Korea.
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Later in the week, Pence will meet with North Korean defectors to highlight the country's human rights abuses.
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Pyongyang reportedly objected to Pence's announcement of forthcoming sanctions, as well as his meeting with North Korean defectors.
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Also, at least four defectors from North Korea have shown signs of radiation exposure, Reuters reported last month.
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Defectors who have settled in the South often pay smugglers to help bring their relatives from the North.
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Gathering information in North Korea is notoriously difficult, and Reuters was unable to independently verify the defectors' accounts.
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For almost three months, he waited alongside more than 800 fellow military defectors for the revolution to begin.
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Senior defectors provide operational intelligence - such as how al Shabaab makes armored vehicle bombs - and insights into its leadership.
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If defectors are caught in China they are deported back to North Korea under China's policy of forced repatriation.
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China, a close ally of Pyongyang, doesn't consider North Korean defectors refugees, instead seeing them as illegal economic migrants.
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Defectors then started crossing the Gobi desert into Mongolia, aiming to reach the South Korean embassy in the capital.
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Clinton said she hoped to take advantage of Republican reticence over Trump to draw the support of party defectors.
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Fellow defectors asked General Shallaf to go back and help create a new police force that would bring order.
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They'd begun firing on peaceful demonstrators and armed rebels, whose original cores were defectors from the Syrian military itself.
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Democrats, currently in the minority in the Senate, are right now — barring Republican defectors — almost helpless to block him.
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I had hoped Clinton would choose him and secure a number of Democratic defectors that were loyal to Sanders.
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Q. Do you think any of the Chinese police or people you encountered had sympathies for North Korean defectors?
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The government has denied the lawyers access to the women, saying that the defectors do not want their services.
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When defectors hand themselves in, they are interviewed by police or other government officials for up to a week.
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Honecker emigrated to Chile while her husband was returned to Berlin to face charges in the deaths of defectors.
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The website is run by North Korean defectors who collect prices via phone calls with traders in the North.
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Defectors often paint a much darker picture of life inside North Korea, one in which dissent is harshly punished.
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But experts are reportedly worried for the safety and security of defectors and their families, according to the BBC.
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That led to the hacker's acquisition of the personal details of 997 defectors living in the North Gyeongsang province.
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The Cuban government also allowed several defectors, including Yasiel Puig and Jose Abreu, to take part in the tour.
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The defectors showed CNN Whatsapp groups, through which they claim to reach thousands of angry junior officers and soldiers.
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Defectors say Kim Jong Un, who came to power in 2011, also quietly loosened the rules on private trade.
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Tumen and Hunchun have for 20 years received defectors, who have managed to escape from North Korea into China.
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Because the children were born in China, South Korea's government does not officially consider them defectors from the North.
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" The letter added that Russian intelligence services "view at least some of its defectors as legitimate targets for assassination.
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North Korea began training electronic warfare soldiers well before the internet era, according to defectors and South Korean officials.
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South Korea's Unification Ministry urged North Korean defectors in South Korea and abroad to be mindful of their security.
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Dissidents and defectors smuggled out pamphlets, firsthand accounts and other forbidden materials, which circulated in Hong Kong and beyond.
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Park said she hopes the international community will do more to help defectors and speak up against the regime.
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Denying this, Ms. Stewart-Cousins suggested that the defectors were pursuing perks like larger offices, staffs and committee memberships.
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To defectors and domestic opponents of the Russian regime, it sends the same signal in a far darker way.
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Under Mr. Kim, the North has tightened control along the border with China, the main escape route for defectors.
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They hired a local lawyer, who sent threatening letters to Nxivm defectors, warning they could face unspecified criminal charges.
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Before my last trip to North Korea in 2750, I spent three months in Seoul interviewing North Korean defectors.
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Thus in the Anglo-French wars of the 1700s France recruited British defectors to unlock the secrets of coal technologies.
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Other Russian dissidents and defectors have also been killed in Britain in recent years in circumstances that have raised suspicions.
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Some dream of playing Major League Baseball -- following in the footsteps of Cuban defectors like Orlando Hernandez or Yasiel Puig.
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Each year, the US government takes in up to 100 defectors, many of them Russian, under its PL110 resettlement program.
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Most defectors from North Korea are eventually offered South Korean citizenship, leading to some European countries deporting asylum seekers there.
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Meanwhile, a recent U.S. State Department human rights paper criticized Seoul for pressuring North Korean defectors not to denounce Pyongyang.
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The freeze in output is not coming through as expected, with a lot of defectors such as Iran and Iraq.
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There is no internet in North Korea, but many young defectors learn to use social media within a few months.
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Defections Previous defectors have said that relatives left behind can bear the brunt of their decision to escape the regime.
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Most are in the northeast, and many help defectors flee North Korea and travel to third countries, including the South.
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Meanwhile, a recent U.S. State Department human rights paper criticised Seoul for pressuring North Korean defectors not to denounce Pyongyang.
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Syrian military defectors familiar with the airport say it plays a major role as a conduit for arms from Tehran.
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Mitch McConnell could afford to lose only two GOP defectors in his quest to push a bill through his chamber.
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The list of GOP defectors includes many national security officials and former aides who worked in George W. Bush's administration.
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But North Korean defectors are much more likely to support the idea than their Southern neighbors, according to past surveys.
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Hackers stole the personal information of 997 North Korean defectors living in South Korea, the South Korean government reported Friday.
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Over the last three years, we have conducted more than 40 interviews with defectors who worked for these trading companies.
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China, however, the country where the most recent defectors worked, said the workers left the country legally using their passports.
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Defectors say a poor corn harvest this year has made it hard for people in rural areas to feed themselves.
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But surveys and anecdotal evidence from defectors suggest private markets are the main source of supply for most North Koreans.
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The gun-control movement goes global, the North Korean defectors who didn't make it, and the fight over the Bight.
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Once in China, defectors must rely on smugglers who charge extortionate rates to evade Chinese security and North Korean agents.
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The North Korean government was clamping down on the flow of remittances that many defectors send home via Chinese middlemen.
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But a small group of defectors has been threatening to withhold their support when the new Congress convenes next month.
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A U.N. spokesperson said its aid to the Venezuelan defectors comes on the condition that they renounce their military activities.
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"We're making diplomatic efforts with the related country so that the defectors will not be forcibly repatriated," Mr. Roh said.
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About 1,303 Chinese-born children of North Korean defectors have been enrolled in South Korean schools, according to government data.
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By the Book The author of "Defectors" says that he likes to cook, but likes to read cookbooks even more.
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Even soldiers who were designated to shake hands with Mr. Kim had to wash their hands first, the defectors said.
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Still, Ms. Collins was among those shaking her head when Mr. Schiff referred to the purported threat against Republican defectors.
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Rumours swirled that the BJP, far richer than its rivals, was proffering huge sums to lure defectors to its side.
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Because of that, she wants to see more funds given to defector interest groups that are led by defectors themselves.
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" (This foreword is said to have cost Greene a knighthood, deservedly so.) And it's Philby's memoir that probably inspired "Defectors.
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The mainstream Democrats, who have raged against the defectors at great and ineffectual length, are also eyeing the 2018 races.
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But according to North Korean defectors and experts, some entrepreneurs with larger ventures are likely accumulating significant amounts of capital.
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Venezuela army defectors have also made a plea to the United States to supply weapons and move the opposition forward.
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At the same time, however, Mr. Trump's vow to establish safe zones has given the defectors something of an opening.
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Defectors who flee with a warship or a military fighter jet will also get $860,000, instead of the current $130,000.
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A report that Trump would be meeting with North Korean defectors in South Korea is "incorrect," the US official said.
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Williams spoke to a number of North Korean defectors, people who fled the regime into China, Japan, or South Korea.
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The spy agency has said it will not present the defectors in court and only their legal representatives will attend.
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Defectors from the North, as well as some conservative analysts and policy makers in the South, widely share that view.
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These are some of the high-profile defectors who have left Silicon Valley in recent years — and where they're headed.
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Most importantly, the government says, those defectors sow suspicion among al Shabaab's leaders and encourage further defections by contacting former comrades.
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In the past, defectors crossed the Gobi desert into Mongolia, aiming to reach the South Korean Embassy in the capital Ulaanbaatar.
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The embassy, which receives about 10 defectors a month, according to officials, kept the women for about 10 days for questioning.
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According to Cancino González, Colombia has forbidden Venezuelan defectors from working a security, or any job that requires contact with weapons.
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Also weighing on some possible defectors are U.S. criminal indictments and investigations that they could face even if sanctions are lifted.
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The program was an interview with nine defectors who had recently been captured in Laos and sent back to North Korea.
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Diego Bossio, one of the defectors, says the bloc wants to work with the new government to repeal the Padlock Law.
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That includes Labour defectors Chuka Umunna running for the City of Westminster seat and Luciana Berger running for Golders Green & Finchley.
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"China who talks about human rights, have erected fences along the Tumen and Yalu rivers to arrest defectors," the pastor said.
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"They say nothing remains where water flowed away, but there is something to harvest after the heat," Kang said, citing defectors.
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Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. is the author of five books including the just-released ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate.
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North Korea has typically referred to its defectors as "scum" or "traitors," often accusing South Korea's intelligence agency of kidnapping them.
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"We thought it was important to make sure that the truth was told," Pence said at the meeting with the defectors.
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They made it out successfully but were later caught in northeast China with eight other defectors, en route to South Korea.
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The group said they were members of the Cheollima Civil Defense, an activist group claiming to assist defectors from North Korea.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign would like to turn the drip-drip-drip of Republican defectors abandoning Donald J. Trump into a deluge.
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When I spoke to Sanders on Monday, he compared the possible killing of Khashoggi to Russia's assassinations of defectors in England.
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As Mr. Ryan was leaving with a group of defectors, he and four others were shot and killed by Jones's gunmen.
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Defectors from the North have been known to cite K-pop as one of their inspirations for escaping to the South.
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The Unification Ministry of South Korea maintains that those who have acquired Chinese citizenship cannot be accepted as North Korean defectors.
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Most Democrats were voting for Ms. Pelosi, while most Republicans voted for Mr. McCarthy, but there were defectors on each side.
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The story that man, Ji Seong-ho, tells of his escape is remarkable even by the standards of North Korean defectors.
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Defectors say those who have been abroad are likely to receive some kind of ideological "re-education" session upon returning home.
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Earlier Friday, Mr. Pence met with defectors from the North and invited them to tell their stories of repression under Pyongyang.
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But its isolated people are unlikely to watch any broadcasts from Pyeongchang, said officials and North Korean defectors in the South.
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At this point, we pretty much know how everyone will vote, save for two Senate Democrats seen as potential defectors. Sens.
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Some donju even rent farmland and mines, working them with their own employees and equipment, or open private pharmacies, defectors said.
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South Korea has said it has admitted 53 defectors, North Korean restaurant workers who arrived on April 7, on humanitarian grounds.
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The bank's survey includes monitoring of the size of rice paddy crops in border areas, traffic surveillance, and interviews with defectors.
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The C.I.A. and the F.B.I. do not like to admit that they rely so heavily on defectors to solve their cases.
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The number of North Korean defectors arriving in the South, which peaked with 2,914 in 2009, dropped to 1,418 last year.
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They appear to be defectors, shown on a video posted to social media from Wednesday in the town of Herran, Colombia.
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The Unification Ministry, the South Korean government agency that handles issues related to defectors, said it was investigating Ms. Lim's case.
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North Korean agents have tried to blackmail defectors in the South, using their relatives in the North as hostages, they said.
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If the Democrats remain united in resistance, it would only take three Republican defectors to kill any controversial bill or appointment.
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Overnight, two defectors swung the board toward an eight-to-five vote in favor of the merger and an agreement was reached.
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It has nearly 100 MPs, defectors from Labour and the Liberal Democrats—plus a few Tories, whose defection has triggered an election.
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Their statistics show between 1,000 and 1,500 defectors have left the country every year since 2011, when Kim Jong Un took control.
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The US should also give Islamic State defectors, particularly those with American roots, a chance to share their unfiltered tales of disillusionment.
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His leftist Syriza party has 145 seats in parliament while additional support was gleaned by defectors of Kammenos's ANEL party and independents.
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In response to queries by CNN, neither Colombia's Foreign Ministry nor the Venezuelan opposition has claimed credit for funding the defectors' accommodation.
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But North Korean defectors estimate that only about 20 to 50 percent of North Koreans today buy what the regime is selling.
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Human traffickers have been reported to fill the demand for more women by selling North Korean defectors to Chinese men as wives.
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Defectors risked their lives to cross the border in a journey that may entail persecution and slave labor, if caught and repatriated.
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Today he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors, and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears most: the truth.
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Mikhail Lesin Previously, US officials had believed that the Kremlin would not go so far as to target defectors on American soil.
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French officials were so concerned about defectors that in 2011 they considered a maximum quota at academies of 30% for dual citizens.
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There are also delegates for self-ruled Taiwan, mostly made up of defectors and their descendants but not elected by Taiwan's people.
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In some ways, the stigmas faced by defectors in South Korea are not unlike those faced by migrants in any other country.
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By Friday, the list of defectors expanded to include Symantec Corp, which ended an discount program for its LifeLock identity theft product.
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There's a new kind of social media star in South Korea: North Korean defectors, whose videos get tens of millions of views.
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For Traynor, the key issue is whether defectors from Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 recall are using more of Apple's cloud and content.
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Along with works by defectors, The Accusation fills an otherwise vacant space often occupied by rumor, hearsay, and America's own nationalist rhetoric.
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"Those people (defectors) are criminals who ran away, they're paid to lie and encouraged by the US and their followers," he said.
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The idea was to show the world that repatriated defectors were not executed or sent to a gulag, as was widely reported.
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By Friday, the list of defectors grew to include Symantec Corp, which ended a discount program for its LifeLock identity theft product.
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Despite a food ration system, North Korea could not feed its own people without the black markets, according to experts and defectors.
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During previous interviews with CNN, many defectors have recounted stories of dodging police, and working with criminal gangs to escape through China.
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Ms. Lee discussed with The New York Times her experiences in China, the plight of defectors and China's relationship with North Korea.
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If he does so, he could become one of the most high-profile defectors in the history of the Chinese Communist Party.
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If all House members vote, Ryan can only afford about 28 GOP defectors and still pass the budget, assuming Democrats oppose it.
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As living examples of North Korea's rights abuses, defectors are the public face of efforts to press for change in North Korea.
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Defectors say North Korea routinely punishes entire families for the crimes of an individual, especially those found guilty of anti-regime activity.
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But the flipside is a shadow world where defectors like Zaporozhsky and Skripal are the ultimate trophy -- and take the ultimate risk.
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That would kill the bill as GOP leaders can afford only 22 defectors, since no Democrats are expected to support the bill.
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Senior defectors from the North said it was an open secret among the Pyongyang elite that the couple both had extramarital affairs.
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The number of North Korean defectors arriving in South Korea, once as high as 250,20093 in 22009, plummeted to 22010,22011 last year.
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Described as intelligent and "ruthless," according to North Korea watchers and defectors, his actions and messaging have been consistent: I'm in charge.
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China also appeared to have given greater access to North Korean security agents to scour its northeast for defectors to drag home.
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Some who have fled have accused President Moon of ignoring China's crackdown on defectors in order to build closer ties with Beijing.
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The way the producers tell it, in their scramble to recruit separated families, they kept running into a new generation of defectors.
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Interviews with defectors indicate that the flag was seen flying from camps run by the combatants in eastern Congo, Mr. Poole said.
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Torture and murder take place in hospitals where, on other wings, dignitaries visit wounded officers, said Mr. Fakir, other survivors and defectors.
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Red-state Senate Democrats Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Manchin, and Joe Donnelly are also potential party-line defectors who voted to confirm Gorsuch.
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Some lawmakers have tried to enact laws to expand the benefits for children of North Korean defectors, especially those born in China.
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And part of the danger comes from Chinese authorities who send defectors back to North Korea, where they face imprisonment and execution.
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Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the Conservatives, also warned potential defectors in the party against being swayed by Mr. Corbyn.
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Right now, Republican Senator Rand Paul is one of those defectors because he says it keeps too much of Obamacare in place.
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Still, Van Drew acknowledged that the number of Democratic defectors will be far shy of enough to sink resolutions in the House.
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Reacting to such concerns, Mr. Mahathir has recently said that new defectors would not automatically be granted formal membership in Pakatan Harapan.
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The video was posted by a group called Cheollima Civil Defense, which said it focused on rescuing North Korean defectors and refugees.
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But China says North Korean defectors are illegal migrants fleeing their country for economic reasons, and does not treat them as refugees.
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Some intraparty tensions are unavoidable, and defectors kill some legislation — as happened with the Clinton health plan and the Obama climate plan.
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It's unclear if the Queen gave 'em a hard deadline, but it's a sign she's taking a hard line with royal defectors.
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If I have any complaints about "Defectors," it's that its depiction of the Soviet Union of 1961 doesn't seem nearly grim enough.
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Despite these initial indications, South Korean officials said a formal investigation was required before concluding that the North Koreans were indeed defectors.
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As Kim prepares for his second summit with US President Donald Trump, these defectors provide a unique insight into life in Pyongyang.
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They will not have any defectors, Republican lawmakers said on Sunday, but Democrats will be under increasing pressure to vote against impeachment.
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After Kim Jong-nam's assassination, some defectors claimed that he had been asked to serve as head of a government in exile.
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He added that defectors had made fewer references to crystal meth in the years since, possibly indicating a decline in overall use.
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These entertainment-driven programs, which often advertise "beauties from the North," are accused of airing sensational yet unconfirmed allegations from the defectors.
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Defectors were disproportionately women; 63 percent of Romney-to-Clinton voters were female compared with 46 percent of Romney-to-Trump voters.
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Since Democrats control the chamber, the measures are expected to pass, though the number of defectors in either direction will be telling.
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BIG OUTLAY Basic North Korean phones typically cost between $23 and $22006 at state stores or private markets, experts and defectors say.
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There is a very big and growing community of North Korean defectors in South Korea [an estimated 30,208 as of December 2016].
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Cancino and other defectors said they feared they'd be pursued in Colombia by loyalists to Maduro who call them traitors and conspirators.
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He said that the drone attack was orchestrated by a group including defectors from the Venezuelan military, with the aim to assassinate Maduro.
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With the Democrats universally opposed to the bill, McConnell can only afford two defectors, and five Senators have already come out against it.
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Earlier this year, McAfee security researchers released a report that suggested North Korea-based hackers were attacking defectors through Android apps with malware.
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The rise of markets and growing public resentment toward forced labour have eroded the quality of labour at most brigades nationwide, defectors say.
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A week after he set foot in China, he found himself with about ten other defectors, hiding in a broker's house near Beijing.
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The US State Department also acknowledged reports of violence against women defectors in its 2018 report on human rights practices in North Korea.
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With 52 Senators in the conference, they ended up with three defectors: Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and McCain.
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Relatives of the dead, defectors and hundreds of thousands of government files smuggled out of the country by activists add to their accounts.
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The country has detained at least 41 defectors in July and August alone, compared to 51 detained between July 2016 and July 2017.
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Panels play a key role in soothing public discontent toward the Kim regime over chronic power shortages and sanctions, defectors and observers say.
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American defectors are considered a valuable propaganda tool by the North Korean regime, according to Balbina Hwang, a visiting professor at Georgetown University.
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About 340 defectors from the North arrived in the South in the first three months of this year, according to Unification Ministry data.
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But this compilation includes some of the most diverse stories I've read out there, from defectors to those who left against their will.
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As a result, a small group of defectors from the speaker candidate's own party could block him or her from winning a majority.
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The videos include clips from interviews with defectors, imams denouncing ISIS' corruption of Islam, and other material that showcase the hypocrisy of ISIS.
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With premium services like Amazon reducing the number of cable subscribers, ad-based networks like YouTube see an opportunity to snatch up defectors.
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China regards North Koreans as economic migrants rather than refugees or defectors, and if they're caught they're usually sent back to face punishment.
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North Korea has in the past complained that North Korean defectors had been abducted by South Korea, and it has demanded their release.
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The identity of the hackers is not yet known, however the leak could imperil family members of defectors still living in the North.
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Yet ISIS has become more formidable in that country and neighboring Pakistan over the past year, thanks to an influx of Taliban defectors.
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The short answer from Thae: Allowing defectors to stay or go to South Korea and not sending North Koreans back to the North.
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The Unification Ministry said it was notifying the affected defectors and there were no reports of any negative impact of the data breach.
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In the past, at least North Korean defectors could make fake [Chinese] ID cards, but those fake ID cards right now don't work.
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Indeed, Lamb's victory demonstrates that Trump defectors, many of whom voted for Obama in 2008 or 2012, prioritize moderate positions over party labels.
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The Free Syrian Army is a rebel group comprising Syrian military defectors and rebel groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
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Disillusionment is rife, defectors allege, with many of the rank and file deeply dissatisfied with the harsh reality and associated traumas of combat.
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Defectors have to pay brokers to guide them out of China, and they are relatively expensive, sometimes untrustworthy and not easy to find.
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I eventually managed to buy a fake Chinese passport and flew to South Korea in 2008, something few defectors are able to do.
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"Thae has huge potential in terms of being a defector spokesman and icon," said Sokeel Park of LiNK, an organization working with defectors.
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In the past, prominent defectors have been targeted by the North Korean authorities and families left behind in the North have faced punishment.
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Those who have left North Korea say defectors' relatives are often sent to prison camps or used by the regime as propaganda tools.
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In interviewing several North Korean defectors while researching a book project, I saw the mental and physical scars they will never heal from.
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He said he was recently summoned to a meeting where defectors were threatened with arrest if they did not show up for duty.
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Kim discussed his love of North Korean naengmyun (cold buckwheat noodles) and taste-tested a seafood stew cooked by one of the defectors.
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His agents make a simple argument to potential defectors: You have no escape from the Islamic State, so come to us for protection.
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A 2018 study found that "suicidal thoughts and behaviors" are more common among North Korean defectors than the South Korean population at large.
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Today he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors, and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears the most ‑- the truth.
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But he also told me that Nxivm hasn't publicly released information about defectors' private lives, traumas and family issues, knowledge they clearly possess.
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Would-be defectors "know their entire family, extended relatives, friends will get executed or rounded up and sent to labor camps," she said.
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We know from refugees and defectors that brutalizing prisoners to extract a confession is very much part of the North Korean judicial system.
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Nxivm associates gave false statements to law enforcement authorities in Canada and elsewhere to initiate criminal investigations into defectors, according to the lawsuit.
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Venezuela army defectors have also made a plea to the United States to supply weapons and move the opposition forward in recent days.
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As a result, Mr. Franco said, many defectors are forced to capitalize on their escape by writing books or appearing on TV shows.
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Today he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors, and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears the most — the truth.
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Mourners, mostly defectors themselves, marched with two symbolic empty caskets to the Blue House, South Korea's presidential office, eventually clashing with the police.
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"As we interview more defectors down the road, we expect to locate more killing and burial sites across the North," Mr. Lee said.
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A bulk of the workers' earnings end up in the coffers of the North Korean leadership, according to human rights groups and defectors.
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Trump added that other defectors did not want to appear in front of cameras and were in another room, scared for their lives.
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Most of the 20 defectors were centrists from populous states that could stand to lose from eliminating the state and local tax deduction.
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Now he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors, and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears the most – the truth.
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She said that she and other writer defectors had studied Bandi's stories and concluded that they were indeed written by a North Korean.
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Today, he works with Mr. Guillén, recruiting defectors who have left the country and have expressed interest in returning to start an uprising.
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But his campaign lost a number of defectors because of his disastrous first debate, which dented his polling numbers and emboldened his critics.
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The rise of markets and growing public resentment toward forced labor have eroded the quality of labor at most brigades nationwide, defectors say.
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Partisan lines have become so entrenched in the Senate that only a handful of senators are considered potential defectors on contentious votes. Sen.
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For now, Colombia has offered all the defectors about $80 of monthly rental assistance for three months and granted them permission to work.
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Today he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors, and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears the most — the truth.
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For instance, in May, North Korean agents in China killed a pastor who had been helping North Korean defectors escape to the South.
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One man has come forward as an organizer of the attack, saying it was perpetrated by a group of Venezuelan Army defectors and others.
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In a handful of cases where defectors are judged to be under "direct threat" from the Kremlin, the government also provides 24-hour guards.
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In their despair over the weekend, defectors appealed to the primary's runner-up, Alain Juppé, another ex-prime minister, to take over as candidate.
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" He also noted that defectors who flee to China are routinely returned by Beijing to suffer a "continuing pattern of ill-treatment and torture.
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LEVIN: When you wrote this book, "The Hundred-Year Marathon," it says in here, you spoke to defectors, Chinese intellectuals, scholars throughout our country.
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China regards North Koreans as economic migrants rather than refugees or defectors, if they are caught they are usually sent back to face punishment.
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"Life in South Korea is competitive," Hong Yong-pyo, South Korea's minister of unification, said in a recent speech to a group of defectors.
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The Seoul office's current six-strong staff record testimony from interviews with dozens of North Korean defectors each week, a U.N. official told Reuters.
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The report, issued as Syria enters its eighth year of war, is based on 454 interviews with survivors, relatives, witnesses, defectors, and medical staff.
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The case has drawn keen attention in South Korea because of the way it might affect the country's handling of other North Korean defectors.
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The program is supported by the Korea Hana Foundation, an organization funded by the South Korean government that helps defectors adjust to life here.
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"There are vested interests in North Korea," said Christopher Green, a researcher at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands who has interviewed North Korean defectors.
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"We apologize for causing worry to many defectors with this incident," the Ministry said, adding it would try to strengthen protection of personal information.
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Mr. Yu, 35, was considered a rare success story among defectors from the North, who often have trouble adapting to life in the South.
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Defectors tell us that if ISIS continues to lose territory, its fighters will shave their beards, blend in, and form an underground guerilla movement.
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Slip them into ISIS Internet and chat rooms so those seeking out ISIS will hear counter messaging — truth versus terrorist propaganda — from real defectors.
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Complex challenges Defectors present a myriad of psychological and logistical challenges for CIA handlers as they navigate the complex reality of life-long resettlement.
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Since the program was founded after World War II, several defectors from Eastern Bloc countries alone have been assassinated or disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
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Most of the 20 defectors were centrists hailing from populous states that could stand to lose from eliminating the state and local tax deduction.
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Hana centers are South Korea's resettlement agencies that work with defectors to introduce and acclimate them to life outside of the North Korean dictatorship.
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The state had no objection to this, he said, without saying whether it had been offered to defectors as an alternative to frontline duty.
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Even before Moon responded to Kim Jong Un's overtures in January, there were signs support for some defectors and human rights activists was waning.
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Security officials and some defectors also say any abolition of the law could allow an influx of the North's propaganda glorifying the Kim regime.
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In July 2011, defectors from Assad's regime formed an organized militia called the Free Syrian Army to protect protesters and strike back at Assad.
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While some defectors claim to have fled after reading leaflets or listening to outside radio, critics say leaflets do little more than provoke Pyongyang.
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In an interview with Fox News last week, Mr. Moon vehemently denied that his government was muzzling North Korean defectors or undermining free speech.
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Younger and wealthier defectors say they had plenty of meat, although it was often seasonal because electric power is too erratic to power fridges.
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He had once been an "amni," a security agent, tasked with finding and surveilling Al Qaeda's enemies and defectors in Turkey — men like him.
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"Fear of extremely harsh interrogations and beatings experienced by returned North Korean defectors continues," said Phil Robertson, deputy director of the group's Asia Division.
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He didn't know all the details, but the rough version involved gang defectors taking up arms to fight the gangs they formerly belonged to.
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There were frequent orders to "do the necessary" to deal with protesters, which defectors have called a code for permission to use lethal force.
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Speaking at a press conference Tuesday, Colombia's foreign minister, Carlos Trujillo, said there was no limit to how long the defectors would be housed.
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That means they get limited access to the governmental support normally given to defectors, like free health care, free college enrollment and housing subsidies.
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"There are vested interests in North Korea," said Christopher Green, a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, who has interviewed North Korean defectors.
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These two high-profile figures add to a pool of defectors that already contains the likes of Richard Armitage, Hank Paulson, and Brent Scowcroft.
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Defectors are either indiscriminately violent "marauders," rebels who are revealed to be callous and bitter, or genuine idealists who struggle to make a difference.
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A former head of data science at Airbnb raised $55 million for his debut fund with the goal of backing other defectors from Airbnb.
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On top of the welfare issues, Kim Jeong-ah says South Koreans often aren't aware of the psychological trauma many defectors are dealing with.
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Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt even compared the list of Republican defectors to "Game of Thrones" character Arya Stark's fictional revenge list. http://bit.
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But my colleague Sheryl Gay Stolberg points out that Democrats have their own list of possible defectors who could vote to acquit Mr. Trump.
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And until Cuba changes its stance on defectors, those players will not be allowed to represent the island nation in the World Baseball Classic.
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Most of the 2023 defectors were centrists hailing from populous states that could stand to lose from eliminating the state and local tax deduction.
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"If a Venezuelan unit ever tries to use force to stop would-be defectors near the line, it could be ugly," Mr. Isacson said.
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South Korea began conducting medical exams of defectors from that region in October, a month after the North conducted its biggest test explosion yet.
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On Monday, a group of soldiers posted online videos pledging allegiance to the opposition leader, seemingly responding to his offer of amnesty for defectors.
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The center looks weak, even if defectors from Labour and the Conservative Parties last month formed an Independent Group to try to resurrect it.
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For years, defectors from North Korea and rights activists have criticized the shows, saying children were forced to train for the performance for months.
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That could make Senator Marco Rubio of Florida the beneficiary of any defectors, or of any fence-sitters who are simply sick of negative campaigning.
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Critics say the government has failed to penetrate the insurgency's core - the top three defectors had all fallen out of favor with Shabaab's inner circle.
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A Somali involved in helping defectors said his country's political instability was the biggest challenge, but at least they were helping destabilize the other side.
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The Hana institution is one of 25 centers that aid approximately 32,000 defectors as they transition to a new life away from the repressive regime.
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North Korean defectors and human rights activists say such mass mobilisations amount to "slave labour" disguised as loyalty to Kim and the ruling Workers' Party.
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But mounting public resistance toward the mobilisation of free labour and supplies may spell trouble for Kim's ambition to transform Samjiyon, defectors and observers say.
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Momentum spokeswoman Laura Parker dismissed the defectors Monday as a "fringe minority" who wanted to return to the discredited politics of the Tony Blair-era.
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The United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has also assisted defectors like Díaz to get settled and to begin processing their paperwork as refugees.
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A 98-page report from Human Rights Watch published in November reached similar conclusions as the Korea Future Initiative regarding the risks female defectors face.
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So too has Vice President Mike Pence, who met with North Korean defectors and spotlighted the issue at the Winter Olympics and at other times.
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The Unification Ministry said the ban was "inevitable" to ensure smooth talks, and it would make efforts to create conditions for defectors to resettle better.
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Ryan — to date the only congressman assassinated in the line of duty — as well as one of the defectors and three members of the press.
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Under the grip of Kim's one-man rule, the country has many dissidents and political opponents in prison camps, according to defectors and civic groups.
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As he has advocated from South Korea, Jung's identity has been questioned by the North Korean government -- a common tactic used to target vocal defectors.
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The Brexit vote and Theresa May's nationalist tilt has attracted back some Tory defectors to UKIP (hence her party now routinely exceeds 40% in polls).
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The survey of 610 North Korean defectors living in South Korea, included 19 reports of more than 10 people being executed at the same time.
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But under Kim Jong Un, who activists say has led a brutal crackdown against dissent and defectors, some progress on economic reforms has been made.
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The new government's majority also rests on an unwieldy coalition of other defectors from UMNO and veteran opposition politicians with relatively little experience of government.
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Moreover, America's current timeline, which gives Mr. Assad at least 13 months until his departure, wrongly signals to potential defectors that there is no hurry.
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Hackers gained access to personal data from the Gyeongsang resettlement center, which helps defectors adjust to their new life after fleeing oppression in the North.
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Will it die with the Trump presidency, or will Republicans scrounge up enough Democratic defectors to break the filibuster and let the practice live on?
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Medical reports on recent North Korea defectors give clues to what's really going on in the notoriously impenetrable Hermit Kingdom, and the results are troubling.
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Ironically, one of the most common desires of defectors who settle in the South is to learn English, the language of their homeland's sworn enemy.
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We are told we probably have two or three hours with these defectors from Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-affiliated militant group operating in Somalia.
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And that there were few defectors for this modest Modernist challenge after intermission suggests that Mr. Gilbert has developed a certain trust with Philharmonic audiences.
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Those challenges have only gotten tougher as cyber capabilities advance and the evolution of social media make the task of protecting defectors even more difficult.
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There is a chance that the hack may impact the families of defectors, since the identity of every defector is not known in North Korea.
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Defectors have testified about neighbors banished to prison camps for sitting on a newspaper that happened to carry the photo of one of the Kims.
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He later gathered Mr. Ji and other defectors in the White House, where they shared harrowing tales of imprisonment, abuse and escape from the North.
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Among the more high-profile defectors are Briton Stefan Aristidou, from Enfield in north London, who went missing two years ago after flying to Cyprus.
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The best brokers, he said, are North Korean defectors based in Seoul who maintain contacts in the North and a roster of drivers in China.
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But cobbling together information from the country's state news media, analysts, defectors and athletes who have competed alongside North Koreans has given us some insights.
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In most cases, the South does not accept them as North Korean defectors, a practice Mr. Kim has been challenging for more than a decade.
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If Mr. Liberman were to end up refusing to join either side, Mr. Netanyahu could still form a coalition with defectors from Mr. Gantz's party.
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But like other defectors, he struggled to make the transition from the North's highly regimented totalitarian system to the South's fast-paced, hypercompetitive capitalist society.
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That means Democrats would likely need to win over five or more defectors, a tall order in the polarized climate during the high-stakes trial.
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After lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff invoked a CBS News report that Trump had threatened potential defectors with reprisals, Senate Republicans took ostentatious offense.
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The majority of the GOP defectors represent New Jersey, New York and California, blue states where the elimination of SALT deductions will hit voters hard.
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A survey last year by South Korea's Unification Ministry of more than 25,000 defectors found their rate of unemployment is 2.9% higher than South Koreans.
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Government officials stood in silence in their memory this month, at a meeting to discuss how to repair gaps in the welfare system for defectors.
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"The Eritrean regime strives to control the diaspora, including through agents operating out of the embassies, in order to punish refugees and defectors," he said.
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As living examples of some of Pyongyang's worst abuses, defectors have long been the public face of campaigns to pressure Pyongyang to change its ways.
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He heard from six defectors, including the author of the "The Girl with Seven Names," Hyeonseo Lee, who fled to China when she was 17.
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He said that on Thursday Vietnamese authorities called off an effort to deport the defectors after several of them protested passionately and appeared to faint.
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Mr. Broeksmit had originally been persuaded by Mr. Mitchell to move to London with the first wave of Merrill Lynch defectors in 1995 and 1996.
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To reinvent itself in opposition and win back defectors from the resurgent Greens, the SPD may, under a new leader, ditch its marriage with Merkel.
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For the defectors — UnitedHealthcare and Aetna — leaving the group poses its own risks, some on K Street who spoke with The Hill on Tuesday said.
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"Today he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears the most — the truth," Trump said.
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Democrats now control 232 seats, according to The New York Times's latest count, meaning that 16 defectors would be enough to deny her the post.
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Bruce Bennett, a defense researcher at the RAND Corporation, said defectors from the North have described witnessing the testing of biological agents on political prisoners.
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Such fears prompted the South Korean government to commission the exams of North Korean defectors from Kilju, to see if they showed signs of exposure.
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North Korean defectors have said the broadcasts had left a lasting impression that there were songs without an ideological message, that spoke only of love.
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North Korean defectors and human rights activists say such mass mobilizations amount to "slave labor" disguised as loyalty to Kim and the ruling Workers' Party.
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But mounting public resistance toward the mobilization of free labor and supplies may spell trouble for Kim's ambition to transform Samjiyon, defectors and observers say.
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Critics say there is anti-Semitism under the surface, as when a Labour lawmaker suggested that the defectors might have had financial backing from Israel.
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The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, expects that there will be at least a handful of Democratic defectors when the full House votes on the articles.
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For now, there is no sign that the economy is reaching a breaking point, according to defectors in touch with their relatives in the North.
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"Those [defectors] who have been rehabilitated can be ambassadors back to their communities," said Abdirahman Osman, a former minister of information who is now Mogadishu's mayor.
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They include increasing numbers of defectors from the armed forces, some of whom are forming militias with the intention of pushing for the overthrow of Maduro.
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Once on Chinese soil, defectors must reach the city of Tumen that sits right up against the icy river, in a lunar landscape of barren hills.
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As living examples of some of North Korea's worst abuses, defectors have long been the public face of campaigns to pressure Pyongyang to change its ways.
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"The impression I get is that the number of senior defectors that have occurred has really ramped up in the last year or so," said Bennett.
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Many defectors, including the soldier who fled via the JSA in November, have said the broadcasts helped them better understand the South and decide to escape.
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Seeking patronage, smaller, allied parties are drifting towards the orbit of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his BJP, which is actively sniffing out potential defectors.
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In exchange, defectors should be required to mobilize other members of their community to switch sides and work with opposition members on a political transition plan.
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According to the auto publication, about 9 percent of Toyota drivers jump to other brands, and half of those defectors are Prius owners going to Tesla.
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In 2005 for instance, Rush Limbaugh implied that the Clintons use their friend's death to intimidate any defectors who threaten to reveal the couple's dark secrets.
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For those into barbecue, the defectors tried sauces from Alabama's LawLers Barbecue, North Carolina's 12 Bones, Kansas City's Gates Bar-B-Q and Rudy's from Texas.
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This open methodology was developed from interviews with ISIS defectors, respects users' privacy and can be deployed to tackle other types of violent recruiting discourses online.
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His path to power now lies in his ability to pick off defectors from the ruling party, especially those in Punjab province, the Sharifs' home turf.
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He strongly denied statements made by defectors of brutal North Korean prison camps, where up to 120,000 men, women and children are believed to be held.
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The names and addresses of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors living in the South were stolen from a government database, a South Korean ministry said Friday.
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He can denounce and ignore defectors, and his loyalists will applaud the man they elected to break through — and break up — the ways of Washington government.
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Congress has never overturned a national emergency declaration, and voting to do so now actually undercuts the claims of the defectors to be acting on principle.
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These men are among the most recent Al-Shabaab defectors to join Somalia's fledgling rehabilitation program, the Socioeconomic Reintegration of Ex-Combatants and Youth at Risk.
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Even though some heartless North Korean, Korean-Chinese and Chinese citizens have exploited vulnerable defectors for money, I witnessed many acts of kindness by the Chinese.
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In addition to helping North Korea find defectors, the Chinese government gives the regime fuel, technology, economic assistance and political support, but receives little in return.
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Seoul (CNN)The personal information of almost 1,000 North Korean defectors has been stolen after hackers targeted an agency which helped them resettle in South Korea.
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In South Korea, there are 50 "balloon warriors," many of them defectors from the North like Mr. Lee, who seek to breach the wall with leaflets.
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The other three are North Korean defectors who South Korea's National Intelligence Service said last year were "captured" by the North without specifying where and why.
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Allowing Kim's permanent return would violate the law, says the South's Ministry of Unification, which estimates 881 defectors to have arrived from the North this year.
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South Korea has accepted only 393 percent of all asylum seekers it has screened since 1994 (not counting North Korean defectors), according to Human Rights Watch.
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The United States, the European Union, South Korea and the United Nations regularly ask China to stop such repatriations of defectors, whom they consider political refugees.
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The Unification Ministry said that it was notifying the defectors whose data was stolen and that there had been no reports of consequences from the breach.
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It is rare for defectors to cross the Demilitarized Zone, which is fortified by layers of barbed-wire fences, minefields and armed sentries on both sides.
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By law, South Korea must accept all defectors from North Korea as its own citizens because its Constitution defines the entire Korean Peninsula as its territory.
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In a 2014 study, South Korean doctors checked a sample of 17 female defectors from North Korea and found seven of them infected with parasitic worms.
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But the South has always denied abducting North Koreans, saying that about 30,000 North Koreans who have arrived in the South since the 1990s were defectors.
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Other defectors usually took months to complete the trip to South Korea, often trekking through the jungles of Southeast Asia with the help of human traffickers.
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British authorities have said it is "highly likely" that the Skripals were poisoned on orders of Russian officials, perhaps as a lesson to other potential defectors.
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"Bring back our Sung-ok!" they chanted and demanded an apology from President Moon Jae-in, himself, for what they see as neglect of defectors' welfare.
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Even after resettling in South Korea, defectors feared that the North Korean authorities would trace their whereabouts and retaliate against their relatives back in the North.
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Jung said the Seoul embassy's subsequent silence had spurred him to publicize the situation, fearing that without an international response the defectors could be forcibly repatriated.
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Based on interviews with North Korean defectors and experts over the last few years, it's apparent the markets are irreversible and entrenched fixtures in the economy.
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Some other defectors fear Lim was lured back to China under the illusion that she might have been able to help her family flee the country.
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Among recent defectors and expat residents, it is said that now, as long as you have money, you can buy anything you want in North Korea.
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Chalabi lined up a parade of Iraq defectors to provide compelling — and inaccurate — stories of Hussein's terrorist connections and his stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
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Then a wave of Silicon Valley defectors revealed that social media apps were intentionally designed to trigger hits of dopamine that keep us coming back for more.
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She is now a student in the U.S. and works with the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, a Washington D.C.-based NGO that aids defectors.
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If defectors manage to make it into China but are then caught, they are forcibly repatriated, as China considers them economic migrants rather than refugees fleeing persecution.
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Human Rights Watch said traffickers promise to help defectors make it to South Korea, but then sell the women as brides or into the commercial sex trade.
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The United Nations has said China is required under international law not to return defectors to North Korea, where they could face persecution, torture and possibly death.
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Seeking to woo potential Republican defectors who just can't get behind their party's nominee, some DNC speakers also used rhetoric that was consistent with old-fashioned Republicanism.
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"In the past, up to half a million North Korean defectors came to China," Kim said, citing the period in the 1990s when famine struck North Korea.
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Although it's unclear when the man fled North Korea, he was reportedly detained with a group of defectors in the northeastern city of Shenyang, China, on Nov.
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A total of about 29,000 North Korean defectors have arrived in the South as of March, including 1,276 last year, with numbers declining since a 2009 peak.
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Whether Intel sees a slew of defectors or is forced to offer discounts, the company could take a hit to one of its fastest growing business units.
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While defectors from Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 recall might positively impact sales of the larger iPhone 7 Plus, supply is very tight for that phone, Munster said.
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Sophisticated mobile surveillance technology capable of recording full conversations, location tracking, and signal jamming is being deployed, according to 17 North Korean defectors interviewed by Amnesty International.
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A survey of around 1,700 defectors in 2015 by the Hana Foundation found more than 20% had suicidal thoughts, three times higher than the South Korean average.
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Interviews with female ISIS defectors are rare and, as such, news outlets around the world have been quick to cover the possible implications of the teenager's rescue.
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"We will provide education for them to settle in South Korea, for a certain period of time, as is usual for North Korean defectors," the official said.
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Here are a few quotes from the report that show in excruciating detail what life in these camps is like, according to the defectors the authors interviewed.
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"What we are seeing is an increase in targeting of North Korean researchers and defectors, malicious emails pretending to come from the South Koreans," he told CNN.
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There's no doubt the Democratic-controlled body would approve the eight pages of procedures Thursday, with each side likely to lose a handful of defectors, if any.
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Besides, most defectors simply want to pass through China and start a new life in South Korea or another country that will provide them with legal protection.
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His new party—scrambled together out of Socialists, defectors from the right, and previously apolitical people excited about Macron personally—triumphed in the legislative elections that followed.
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Changing circumstances Reverend Kim Seung-eun and his Caleb Mission has helped defectors escape North Korea for two decades, personally claiming to have helped around 500 people.
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The website is run by defectors who gather prices through telephone calls to traders in the North, gaining a rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary citizens.
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The Senate will need 60 votes and Ryan likely will need Democrats in the House to make up for spending hawk defectors to pass the spending bill.
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A Foreign Ministry spokesman told CNN Tuesday that Seoul was attempting to undertake diplomatic efforts to ensure that North Korean defectors will not be forcefully sent back.
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Amid all the identical smiles, however, Salt Lake City proper stands as an oasis of culture in Utah, a home to artists, musicians, and many church defectors.
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Zeid noted that North Korea is putting up barriers on its border and increasing checkpoints throughout the country -- measures intended to deter would-be defectors from fleeing.
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They claim to be in contact with hundreds of willing defectors and have called on enlisted Venezuelan soldiers to revolt against the Maduro regime, through television broadcasts.
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Starting in August and September 1945, a stream of defectors, Russian and American, informed the F.B.I. about the moles in Washington and the spies at Los Alamos.
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"What we did today, we did for our families, for the Venezuelan people," one of the defectors said in a video televised by a Colombian news program.
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Judging from defectors I've interviewed and much of the literature on North Korea, many do — especially older people, farmers and those farther from the North Korean border.
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Officials were still investigating the circumstances of the North Koreans' travel to the South, including whether the two defectors had commandeered the ship during a fishing trip.
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He spent years held with other American defectors, forced to read the works of North Korean leaders for hours on end and suffering from hunger and beatings.
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The book, "Cryptography From the Third-Floor Secretariat," above, recounts the life of Thae Yong-ho, one of the highest-profile defectors to South Korea in years.
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Defectors often reach out to friends and family in their native lands, communications that are typically vulnerable to eavesdropping by Russian intelligence officers, former C.I.A. officials said.
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Mr. Kwon says he has grown disillusioned with life in the capitalist South, where he says North Korean defectors like him are treated like second-class citizens.
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Like all defectors, he became a South Korean citizen upon arriving here, and it is illegal for any South Korean to visit the North without government permission.
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Instead, she has focused her energies on trying to finesse the backstop and persuade the 128 Tory and Democratic Unionist Party defectors to get behind her plan.
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With the supposed defectors now claiming they had been tricked into supporting Ajit Pawar, and Mr Fadnavis unable to prove his majority, India's supreme court stepped in.
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Alongside military planes, a number of commercial cargo aircraft fly from Iran to resupply arms to Hezbollah and other groups, passing through Iraqi airspace, the defectors said.
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Defectors say factories remain hobbled by electricity shortages and decrepit machinery while many farmers have struggled to meet state quotas because they lack fertilizer and modern equipment.
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Just four Republican defectors are enough to prompt witness testimony in the trial, something that would throw the proceedings into uncertain and risky territory for the President.
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As of September, at least 771 North Korean defectors had entered South Korea this year, according to the South's Unification Ministry, which handles relations with the North.
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Two other Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, have also at times expressed concern at the confirmation process and are potential GOP defectors.
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Researchers interviewed 50 North Korean defectors who spoke of long hours and inhumane conditions in forced unpaid labor for adults and children in farming, construction and roadbuilding.
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Once in China, defectors have to pay smugglers to take them to countries like Laos and Thailand, where they can seek asylum in the South Korean Embassy.
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From December, she had been among scores of mostly young female North Korean defectors who have tried to build careers on cable TV talk or reality shows.
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Back in North Korea, she said she and other defectors on South Korean TV shows were often coerced into slandering the North — an allegation the channels deny.
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Opposition leaders say they've received reports from Colombian police that two representatives designated by Juan Guaidó to attend to the military defectors actually spent funds on themselves.
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Al Shabaab has tried to prevent defections by requiring senior members to get travel passes, two defectors told Reuters, forcing some to take circuitous routes through the bush.
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The government's push to help defectors in a more organized way began in 2014 after splits in the insurgents prompted top Islamist Hassan Dahir Aweys to come across.
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Amazon Prime Video was quietly launched to Australian users, ahead of the launch of The Grand Tour — featuring Top Gear defectors Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.
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Per the Times, while at least 114 defectors from the region are living in South Korea, just 30 gave consent for government researchers to run tests on them.
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While the scientists did not find "any statistically meaningful amount of radioactive substances" in the defectors' bodies, four of them exhibited chromosomal alterations potentially attributable to radiation damage.
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Seoul (CNN)South Korea is quadrupling its reward fee for defectors from North Korea who are willing to hand over classified information on the reclusive country's military secrets.
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Her 27-year-old sister was in a group of four defectors who made it all the way to Nanning, near the border with Vietnam, before being caught.
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After the ghastly betrayals and disasters of the early cold-war period, the era of Kim Philby and other British defectors, Mr Gordievsky represented a redemption of sorts.
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Mr Skripal's former role in the GRU, the agency's reputation for punishing defectors and its hacking of e-mails of Mr Skripal's daughter all pointed to its involvement.
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I was on my way to New Malden, a suburb in southwest London that is home to approximately 700 North Korean defectors, more than anywhere else in Europe.
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China — which North Korea views as its most significant trading partner — labels North Korean defectors as illegal immigrants, not refugees, and routinely returns them to the reclusive country.
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In the meantime, by suspending parliament, Mr Sirisena gave the conspirators time to suborn or shanghai enough defectors from Mr Wickremesinghe's camp to reach the magic 113 MPs.
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Journalists are rarely allowed outside Pyongyang, where defectors have claimed that life is often a daily struggle -- with limited food, scarce power and outdated farming and hospital equipment.
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Still, Johnson may be confident that he'll be able to win back some of the Conservative defectors and peel off some Labour members who represent Leave-voting districts.
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They asked one of their new demands is that the South Koreans have to return 13 defectors that worked in a restaurant in China back to North Korea.
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He bases this on North Korean state media reports and photos as well as interviews with more than a dozen defectors who were scientists, professors or factory workers.
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I was supposed to interview North Korean defectors, but having already written extensively about them in the past, I felt unable to rouse much enthusiasm for the task.
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Last December, MLB officials and players, including Cuban defectors, flew to Havana for a training clinic with Cuban children and to meet government representatives about a possible agreement.
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As many as 51 Conservative party members have said they wouldn't vote for a previous "soft" Brexit plan, but the number of total defectors right now is unclear.
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But I'm trying my best to believe in God every moment, because I found they are very kind people who support North Korean people and defectors a lot.
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The Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) said its report was based on interviews with 375 North Korean defectors from the isolated state over a period of two years.
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The Chinese authorities routinely hunt down defectors and return them to North Korea, where they face torture, forced labor, life in a prison camp or even public execution.
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Y. H. Kim, another defector turned rights advocate, said the expulsion of the two was the latest in what he said were government efforts to "trample" on defectors.
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Prior to 2017, there had only been four military defectors from North Korea over the past five years: one in 2016, one in 2015 and two in 2012.
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Trump said during a meeting with North Korean defectors on Friday that, despite a "very tricky situation", North Korea's participation in the Olympics could result in "something good".
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They have enlisted Praetorians, gun-toting imperial fighters to weed out any defectors — and Takeshi and the rest of the rebel-fighting Envoys certainly fall under that umbrella.
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These officials said that if some of the women returned to the North, those who stayed behind could be branded as genuine defectors and their families could suffer.
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Separately, 10 North Korean defectors, including a 3-year-old boy and his mother, were arrested in China and may be deported, an activist in South Korea said.
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Among the defectors are Mr. Ashley and Mr. Jones, as well as Mr. Reese and Edwin Evers, who have each earned more than $3 million with the organization.
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A web-based populist party, it reversed its previous opposition to Mr. Putin in 2014 because, defectors say, the party leadership realized how popular Mr. Putin had become.
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The hosts, Nam and the actress Park Eun-hye, asked the younger defectors on set about North Korean millennials' growing obsession with South Korean fashion, slang and music.
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Finally, according to Mr. Heo, he promised that South Korea would keep the episode quiet, protecting the defectors' families back in North Korea from retaliation by the government.
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When North Korean defectors make it to the South, the first step is an extensive debriefing by the National Intelligence Service, which can take weeks or even months.
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The schools Mr. Mabuza did champion provided an easy way to funnel large amounts of money into politics, according to A.N.C. officials, high-ranking defectors and anticorruption groups.
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The group was waiting for smugglers to take them across China and into Laos and Thailand, where most North Korean defectors are allowed to fly to South Korea.
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Moving deeper into territory along the Turkish border, the advance took the town of Tamaneh after earlier capturing Khwain, Zarzoor and Tamanah farms, the defectors and residents said.
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On Friday, he met with defectors from the North and with Fred Warmbier, an American whose son Otto died last year after months of imprisonment in the North.
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Meanwhile on the other side of the Cold War, Claudia was instructing Elizabeth to find out whether the defectors were "the couple" known to be working with Stan.
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South Korean officials suspect these "repeat defectors," as those who return to the North are known, may have been lured to China and kidnapped back to the North.
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Between these two walls was a barren wasteland known as the "death strip" where armed guards monitored for defectors and many were killed attempting to flee East Germany.
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A senior Senate GOP aide said Collins, Romney and Murkowski are the only possible defectors "and the list ends there" unless dramatically new information emerges before a vote.
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The Queen dutifully complied with the prorogation, but in early September the opposition — joined by 21 defectors from the Tory party, voted strongly against a no-deal exit.
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The defectors are primarily payments companies whose inclusion had initially been seen as a coup for Facebook, due to their expertise and vast scale across networks of vendors.
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Safe passage for defectors fleeing the oppressive regime often depends on their ability to make the grueling, and at times dangerous, trip across rural China without being detected.
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Like all defectors from the isolated, totalitarian North, she went through 12 weeks of mandatory classes, learning basic skills like using a credit card and driving a car.
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Shoes, liquor, cigarettes, socks, sweets, cooking oil, cosmetics and noodles produced in North Korea have already squeezed out or taken market share from Chinese-made versions, defectors said.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that U.S. officials, including diplomats engaged in denuclearization talks with North Korea, intervened to secure the defectors' release, citing unidentified sources.
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But as the evening wore on, it looked increasingly likely that Ms. Collins and Ms. Murkowski would be the only Republican defectors, setting up a 50-50 tie.
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Defectors from the island — such as New York Mets slugger Yoenis Céspedes and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig — are some of the biggest stars in the game.
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Harrowing tales At the earlier meeting with defectors, Pence was joined by Fred Warmbier, whose son Otto died soon after being released from North Korean captivity last year.
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Gilberto Hinojosa, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, said Democrats would be wise to remember that many of the recent defectors to the party here are moderates.
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Gilberto Hinojosa, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, said Democrats would be wise to remember that many of the recent defectors to the party here are moderates.
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In their report on Wednesday, the researchers said they could not find any statistically meaningful amount of radioactive substance inside the bodies of the 30 defectors they examined.
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South Korea-based analysts and North Korean defectors report that with sanctions still blocking most coal exports, the North has put more of its stockpile to use domestically.
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But there does appear to be a racial component to this, as defectors are much more likely to disagree that whites are advantaged in US 210/n pic.twitter.
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The ministry announced on Friday it became aware of the breach last week when it found that names, addresses, and birth dates of nearly a 1,000 defectors were taken.
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Activists and organizations working with North Korean defectors say Beijing is increasingly cracking down on safe houses and there has been a recent uptick in the arrest of escapees.
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We travelled to South Korea to meet young defectors who risked their lives, often before they even turned 22018, to bring change to their home country of North Korea.
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Heo hoped for a better life after Moon was sworn in, only to realize things could get worse for defectors as the president pushed for peace with the North.
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Public protests against the government of the South are "pure gold" for the North's regime, says Sokeel Park of Liberty in North Korea, a group that works with defectors.
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Defectors from the North have previously said the country's spy agency, run by the military, operates a sophisticated cyber-warfare unit that attempts to hack, and sabotage, enemy targets.
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" Revkin and Mhidi also interviewed at least a dozen ISIS supporters and recent defectors, and they all confirmed that "ISIS strongly prefers Trump over the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.
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"Many people rely completely on the markets and off-the-books private farming for their food," said Sokeel Park of Liberty in North Korea, an organization which aids defectors.
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Once inside Venezuela, the drugs are then whisked through military checkpoints and escorted or waved on by the army, allege US and regional officials and several Venezuelan army defectors.
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There is also a "continuing pattern of ill-treatment and torture" of defectors who escaped to China only to be returned to North Korea by Chinese authorities, Quintana said.
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Sokeel Park of Liberty in North Korea, a group that works with defectors, reckons it is more likely to be seen as impartial than American or South Korean stations.
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According to South Korea&aposs Yonhap Nedws Agency, South Korean military personnel spotted the defectors on a boat in the Yellow Sea, between China's mainland and the Korean Peninsula.
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Mr. Fawzy said his movement was started by defectors from Tamarrod, a group that mobilized anti-Morsi protests, and helped pave the way for Mr. Sisi to take power.
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Trump and his supporters are now returning fire themselves by lashing out at defectors, promising political retribution, and finding new targets for his base's rage as election day nears.
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Return to the North According to the Unification Ministry, citing figures quoted by the North Korean media, a total of 25 defectors have returned to the North since 2012.
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It would take a few more years, when defectors from the GDR stole across the Berlin Wall, for the true provenance of the "swastika graffiti operation" to become known.
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The number of defectors is small, and none is a lawmaker, but their complaints underline the challenges 51-year old government spokesman Christophe Castaner will face as party chief.
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Most defectors undergo security questioning by the National Intelligence Service for a few days up to several months in extreme cases, before being moved to the Hanawon resettlement center.
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Researchers at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute estimate the defectors were exposed to radiation between 2009 and 2013, saying it could have happened in a number of ways.
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Ahmet S. Yayla is co-author of the book ISIS Defectors: Inside the Terrorist Caliphate and Deputy Director at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE).
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North Korean defectors in the country are terrified of trying to leave because they are often caught at the borders as they attempt to cross into Mongolia or Laos.
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What stands out in this presidential campaign aren't the alarms that Democrats are sounding about the Republican nominee but the ones that an unusual number of Republican defectors are.
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But Benenson said that, if a covert social-media campaign targeting "Hillary defectors" was indeed launched in battleground states, it might well have changed the outcome of the election.
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That makes it hard to ascertain where the Olympic defectors' concerns about Zika end and where their general worries about Rio's readiness to serve as a world host begin.
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Along with my research partner, Dr. Ahmet S. Yayla, we have conducted and videotaped in-depth interviews with three dozen Syrian, European and Balkan former ISIS fighters and defectors.
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The North Korean government tightly controls the flow of information inside the country, and citizens are often severely punished for consuming media not sanctioned by Pyongyang, according to defectors.
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The offensive comes at a crucial and volatile time for the rebel groups that brand themselves as the Free Syrian Army and include many army defectors like Mr. Somaa.
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If the Democratic nominee is poison to the Sanders followers, there will be an ugly scene at the convention, no show voters and some defectors to the Green Party.
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Thousands of students, citizens and defectors were prosecuted, jailed and even executed under the 0133 law, which bars "praising, inciting or propagating the activities of an anti-government organization".
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Some of the top Major League players are Cuban defectors, including Jose Dariel Abreu of the White Sox, Aroldis Chapman of the Yankees and Yoenis Cespedes of the Mets.
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Although China's relations with North Korea have soured, China pleases North Korea by detaining any defectors it finds and returning them to almost certain harsh imprisonment, and possible torture.
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The relative was then supposed to drive them to Shenyang, a city in northeastern China that is often used by North Korean defectors as a base before heading south.
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Several defectors, including one who became a South Korean television celebrity, have disappeared in recent years, only to turn up later in North Korean state media criticizing the South.
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But a small group of defectors who have agitated for new leadership in the party have been threatening to withhold their votes when the new Congress convenes on Jan.
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Josh Balser, deputy director of programs for the International Rescue Committee in Colombia, said NGOs would be wary to get involved with an issue as political as military defectors.
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Another NGO leader said the Colombian government had convened humanitarian groups and asked them to help provide cash assistance for the defectors, but the groups declined to get involved.
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Officials have said Mr. Skripal, a former Russian spy turned double agent who was living peacefully in southwestern England, was very likely targeted as an example to future defectors.
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Defectors: A group of "Conservative rebels" from Mr. Johnson's party, starchy grandees who just months ago held the reins of power, joined the effort to thwart the prime minister.
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North Korea has also made improbable allegations that more than 30,000 North Korean defectors who fled to South Korea in the last two decades were kidnapped by the South.
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Syrian military defectors familiar with the functioning of the airport during the war said on Thursday that it plays a major role as a conduit for arms from Tehran.
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Instead, Quintana relied on interviews with civil society groups and government officials in South Korea and Japan, as well as defectors who fled North Korea in 2016 and 2017.
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Mr. Oh said the biggest challenge for him was to persuade other defectors to testify for the mapping project, even when he promised not to reveal their personal information.
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The group, whose 18 members were seen as the most likely defectors, cited the tax bill's deficit-busting numbers as the ultimate reason they decided to oppose the plan.
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His comments came the same day President Donald Trump met in the White House with a group of North Korean defectors who described how they escaped the hermit kingdom.
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"It's constrained and camouflaged, but it's capitalism nonetheless," says Sokeel Park, director of research and strategy at Liberty in North Korea, an international NGO that supports North Korean defectors.
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Daniel Oppenheimer's sequence of biographical essays about six left-wing defectors, "Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century" (Simon & Schuster), begins with Chambers.
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For a growing number of North Koreans, however, money has overtaken Party membership when it comes to getting ahead, according to defectors who have fled to rival South Korea.
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South Korea's offer to send a delegation to the resorts risks giving leader Kim Jong Un's regime legitimacy and some much needed cash, North Korean defectors and experts say.
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She even had her own online fan club, indicating that she was among the relatively few North Korean defectors who had successfully adjusted to life in the capitalist South.
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It has also intensified the crackdown on South Korean movies and TV dramas smuggled from China through which North Korean defectors said they learned of life in the South.
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Their numbers raised the clear possibility that enough Republican defectors could join with Senate Democrats to provide a majority to disapprove of the president's decision should the opportunity arise.
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Four Republicans might be enough to join with Senate Democrats and pass legislation rebuking the president, and leadership aides put the number of potential defectors as high as 10.
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Adding to the officers' humiliation, the sanctions have reduced their rations and forced their wives to help make ends meet as traders in the markets, defectors and economists say.
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Perhaps surprisingly, however, these defectors did not turn out to have views on trade policy that marked them as significantly more opposed to free trade than the average Democrat.
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Weeks before Maduro's speech, the Venezuelan defectors had ordered commercially available drones online from the United States, and customized them to detonate a homemade bomb through the remote control app.
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The parasites, along with kernels of corn in his stomach, may confirm what many experts and previous defectors have described about the food and hygiene situation for many North Koreans.
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Of course, there's always a Facebook scandal in the news so attributing this high volume of possible defectors to any one event could be a case of broken clock syndrome.
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Other defectors say they have also experienced a drop in support as South Korea and the United States seek to improve ties and officially end the 1950-53 Korean War.
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The incoming president has some parliamentary support, too, mostly from early Socialist defectors such as Richard Ferrand, a deputy from Brittany, and Gérard Collomb, a senator and mayor of Lyon.
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" In response, the South Korean Unification Ministry issued a statement to CNN: "13 defectors voluntarily decided to leave and pushed ahead with the escape without any help from the outside.
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In the past few years, defectors have started appearing on South Korean talk shows and reality TV programs, giving the public a taste of what ordinary North Koreans look like.
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Even while on the run in China, Ms Lee says, defectors consult fortune-tellers about when they should change their names to keep ahead of North Korean and Chinese goons.
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In reality, the three defectors have often voted against May's plan for exiting the European Union and she would not necessarily have been able to count on their votes anyway.
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Prices in North Korean markets have remained relatively stable and continue to be a reliable source of food, according to defectors who closely monitor North Korean market prices and activity.
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But recent al-Shabaab defectors have cast doubts on the extent to which al-Shabaab maintains ties to al Qaida today, and the threat the group poses outside of Somalia.
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Yet a survey of defectors and other North Koreans abroad by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice of America, found 29% had listened to foreign broadcasts before leaving.
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For example, documentary videos and citizen journalism often proved to be more effective at countering pro-ISIS narratives, as did videos that featured religious debates and videos from ISIS defectors.
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If the reports about Kim Jong Nam are true, Hemmings said, the CIA has — like many other regional intelligence agencies — turned to high-level defectors to "fill in" the gaps.
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Ninety percent of those were from corrupt defector aid groups that pretended to help rescue defectors but instead only pocketed aid money raised in the United States and South Korea.
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In a cheeky homage to the "burning platform" memo, Pienimäki and his fellow defectors decided to name their company Jolla, a Finnish word connoting a small boat or life raft.
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The South Korean defense ministry said the broadcasts, which blare a combination of radio dramas, pop music, criticism of the North and news about defectors, fell silent at midnight Sunday.
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The North Korean government tightly controls the flow of information inside the country, and average citizens are often severely punished for consuming media not sanctioned by Pyongyang, according to defectors.
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In the way that many Europeans want to turn away the migrants landing on their shores, some Chinese people argue that their country is simply not obligated to help defectors.
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That year, my South Korean counterpart was assassinated by a North Korean hit squad for his role in facilitating the escape of North Korean defectors through the Russian Far East.
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The South Korean government screens defectors for security risks and runs resettlement programs to help them adapt and integrate into South Korean society -- something that can be an uphill struggle.
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Kim Yo Jong once briefly took control of the country's affairs while her brother was ill in 2014, according to a South Korean think tank run by North Korean defectors.
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This spring, the Trump administration acted by expelling Russians, including suspected spies that US law enforcement believed were tracking dissidents and defectors in the US, as CNN has previously reported.
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That change in lifestyle can be jarring for defectors and their families who are forced to abandon parts of their life that long served as the foundation of their identity.
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The F.S.A. is more a brand than a command structure, led by army defectors and others who say they reject the extremist ideologies of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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Peter Bjarkman, an expert on Cuban baseball and author of the upcoming book "Cuba's Baseball Defectors," said the Gurriel defections indicate Cuba is unprepared to reach a deal with MLB.
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If the Democratic nominee is poison to Sanders' more liberal followers, there will ugly scenes at the Democratic National Convention, no show voters and some defectors to the Green Party.
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Researchers interviewed 50 North Korean defectors living in South Korea who described long hours and inhumane conditions during mandatory unpaid labor for adults and children in agriculture, construction and roadbuilding.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday called for an investigation into claims his representatives misappropriated funds intended to help defectors from the Venezuelan military living in Colombia.
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The Defense Ministry said it also could not confirm the report, adding that none of the four military defectors are believed to have worked in North Korea's biochemical warfare unit.
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Lawmakers in his party have introduced a bill that would ban defectors and other anti-North Korean activists from sending negative leaflets via balloon into the North without government permission.
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And since Democrats don't genuinely want to see a debt ceiling breach, vulnerable defectors could probably count on obtaining additional cover from a handful of more senior, more institutionalist Democrats.
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The Chinese saw rounding up North Korean defectors who were heading to South Korea as a way to irritate the government of the South's newly elected president, Moon Jae-in.
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Many defectors had told me how much they miss the intimacy of their neighborhoods in the North, a stark contrast to Seoul's cool, atomistic consumerism; but here, a tenderness prevailed.
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Thinking that the South Korean authorities would accept him if he arrived the way most North Korean defectors did, he joined North Koreans smuggled from China to Thailand in 2009.
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With his conservative Likud party claiming it had locked down 60 seats, just one shy of a majority, he sought out new coalition partners and potential defectors from opposition parties.
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But in the last year, a fleet of high-profile Silicon Valley defectors have been sounding alarms in increasingly dire terms about what these gadgets do to the human brain.
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One of the defectors, Ji Seong-ho, who was a guest at President Trump's State of the Union address last month, became visibly emotional and embraced Mr. Warmbier three times.
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Last May, the Washington state Supreme Court held that the state could regulate the vote of an elector either directly or indirectly, upholding a $1,000 fine for the Clinton defectors.
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For defectors like Mr. Kwon who have failed to adjust to life in the South and want to return to the North, there is no legal way to do so.
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The country's widespread shortages of food and medicine could also provide an opening for Ms. Ortega and other defectors to claim that the government is not fulfilling its socialist mission.
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South Korea's foreign ministry said on Saturday that the WSJ report was "not factual", but said the government had made immediate efforts to prevent the defectors from being forcibly repatriated.
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It has always been only a small group of Republicans who were truly considered possible defectors who might join Democrats on the volatile issue of seeking witnesses in the trial.
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The cruelties inside the police state, often reported by defectors, led to news reports speculating that the North Korean leader may have had his uncle torn apart by ravenous dogs.
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Republicans have a 53-seat majority in the Senate, where 51 votes are needed to pass a set of rules for the Trump trial, so Republicans cannot afford many defectors.
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Defectors have shed some light on the activities of the shadowy bureau, which cybersecurity experts have linked to the "WannaCry" ransomware attack that infected computers around the world in May.
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"To other officials that are living in fear of Maduro, make the right choice and side with your fellow citizens," Mr. Bolton said, reaching out to potential defectors on Twitter.
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Captain Jean Marchena, a Venezuelan defector formerly stationed with the army in Caracas, said he other defectors made the initial report against Guaidó's representatives, Barrerra and Rojas, with Colombian police.
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These defectors are an invaluable source of knowledge on what life is like in the North, but more importantly, they're a testament to how horrible life is inside North Korea.
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But late last year, the government officials he once hunted became his handlers after the 26-year-old joined a slowly growing stream of defectors to the U.N.-backed Somali administration.
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Researchers who teamed up to work on the report interviewed 50 North Korean defectors, and all but one person revealed they had been forced into labor, according to The Washington Post .
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Once back in North Korea, defectors face possible torture, sexual violence, hard labor, imprisonment in political or re-education camps, or even execution by the North Korean state, according to activists.
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To reach China, many defectors cross the Tumen River that separates North Korea from China on foot at night, sometimes in freezing weather with the water coming up to their shoulders.
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Over the past few days, the South Korean government has taken the highly unusual action of announcing the arrival of a number of high-profile North Korean defectors to the South.
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South Korean Christian missionaries, journalists and North Korean defectors to the South could be prime targets, Sun Nahm-kook, a deputy spokesman for the South's foreign ministry, told a news briefing.
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Theresa May's Conservative Party is a welcoming home for defectors, having co-opted UKIP's support for selective state education through more grammar schools, and by taking a harder line on immigration.
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To pass a bill without help from Democrats, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's caucus could only suffer two defectors, which would allow Vice President Mike Pence to break a 50-50 tie.
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Surveys of defectors by Seoul National University found that the biggest challenge for North Koreans doing business was funding, followed by bribes paid to authorities and occasional crackdowns on market activity.
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A second, from 1999 to 2009, saw Chechnya brought back into the fold, but at terrible human cost — and by relying on defectors from the rebel side, led by Akhmad Kadyrov.
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Written by three respected international judges and based on interviews with more than a dozen North Korean defectors, the report might well be the most disturbing thing I've read this year.
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Four defectors hailing from a place near North Korea's nuclear test site displayed symptoms that could be attributed to radiation exposure, a report commissioned by the South Korean government said Wednesday.
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Jersey City's rejection of Airbnb suggests that the tide may be changing for the so-called tech unicorn, as the city joins the growing ranks of former Airbnb defenders turned defectors.
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Such nationalism has proved popular among young North Koreans, said Mr. Chang, whose Institute for Peace and Unification Studies has been tracking public opinion inside the North by interviewing recent defectors.
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South Korea said Wednesday that at least four North Korean defectors have exhibited signs of radiation exposure, but it's not known if the exposure is due to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
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But to get there, Republicans had to turn to Democrats to help shepherd a spending deal through both chambers for two reasons: Senate Democrats' ability to filibuster and expected conservative defectors.
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The decision drew criticism and dismay from some defectors, who said the men should have been tried in the South and would likely face torture, and possibly execution in North Korea.
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He co-authored a report on the intricate web North Korea has built to procure weapons parts, based in part on interviews with North Korean defectors conducted between 2008 and 2012.
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