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Kang Tae-jun
Tae-jun Kang is the NK News East Asia Correspondent and is based in Hong Kong. Prior to writing, he worked as a riot police officer in South Korea for two years.
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News U.S. sees fourth N. Korean defector of 2014 – VOANearly 170 refugees have come to the U.S. since 2006 law's passage A North Korean defector entered the United States in April as a refugee, the Washington D.C.-based Voice of America (VOA) reported on May 9, quoting the United States Department of State. With this latest arrival, there are now four North Korean defectors who have come to the U.S. this year, and a total of 167 have come since 2006. The VOA added that 70-80 percent of defectors to the U.S. are female. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |