Around 3000 North Korean defectors will leave South Korea if Moon Jae-in is elected President next week, a defector group claimed on Wednesday at a press conference at the National Assembly.

The group, which calls itself the “Defectors’ Collective Asylum Promotion Committee” was composed largely of supporters of Hong Joon-pyo of the conservative Liberty Korea Party.

Activists claimed that defectors had been “oppressed and discriminated against” in South Korean society during the presidency of Roh Moo-hyun, for which Moon was chief of staff.

The group argued that the Roh Moo-hyun administration had been involved in the “forced repatriation of 22 North