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This happens regularly, this defection.North Korea Defections on Rise, South Says
By MARK McDONALD
Published: November 15, 2010
SEOUL, South Korea — Defections from North Korea have risen markedly in recent years, South Korean officials said Monday, driven both by worsening economic conditions and more news from abroad filtering into the secretive communist state.
About 2,900 people defected to the South last year, said Lee Jong-joo, an official with the Unification Ministry, and more than 2,000 have defected so far this year. She cited "humanitarian reasons, including the food situation," as being among the leading reasons cited for defecting and said that 70 percent of defectors were women.......
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Would it make any difference?
They move into China (as a Readers Digest stoty) and from there move into South Korea.
Is China in collusion?
What is the game plan?