USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The DMZ is lined with barbed-wire fences, minefields and armed sentries. Few North Koreans who defect to the South do so by crossing it directly (most go through China), and it is even rarer for a defector to return that way.

Detailed explanation-2: -To escape from North Korea, the defectors cross the Chinese border into Jilin and Liaoning provinces and landed in northeast China. There are about 76% to 84% of defectors have fled to China or South Korea.

Detailed explanation-3: -About 300, 000 North Koreans have escaped and moved to various countries worldwide since the end of the conflict on the Korean peninsula in 1953 and about 30, 000 settled in South Korea. It is rare for defectors to return to North Korea – there were about 30 in the past decade.

Detailed explanation-4: -Since 1998, more than 33, 000 people have defected from North Korea to South Korea, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry.