The North Korean defectors who want to return home

Name: The North Korean defectors who want to return home
Uploaded: 2014-02-28T14:00:32.000Z
Duration: 8 min 49 s
Description: A small number of the 25,000 North Koreans who have escaped their repressive homeland to flee to the South in the past 20 years are trying to return. Lucy Williamson meets some of them to find out why.

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About 25,000 North Koreans have escaped their homeland and resettled in South Korea over the past 20 years.

The journey is long and dangerous, but once defectors arrive South Korean citizenship is guaranteed.

So why are a small number deciding to return to their repressive homeland?

Lucy Williamson reports for BBC Newsnight N.

Asia

28 February 2014