Today’s South Korea has more than 30,000 North Korean defectors living in it, many of whom fled their hometowns because of hunger and political repression.

But a surprising number of defectors have also decided to return to the North — just last weekend, a defector was caught and arrested after attempting to return to the DPRK through the eastern border town of Cheorwon.

According to statistics recently provided by the Ministry of Unification, there were 29 cases of redefections between 2012 and 2019. Of these, 14 of the redefectors were men and 15 were women.

The real figure is definitely