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A North Korean staff sergeant defects to South Korea after crossing the Korean Demilitarized Zone into Goseong County, Gangwon, and is taken into South Korean custody.
2024-08-20

South Korea bans the launching of propaganda leaflets into North Korea. The balloon propaganda campaigns have been used by North Korean defectors and Korean reunification activists for decades to spread anti-government propaganda, news from the outside world that is restricted in the North, money, food, and USBs containing South Korean media. The ban also outlaws the use of loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts. Violators of the ban will face up to three years in prison or 30 million won ($27,400) in fines.
2020-12-14

The North Korean state news agency KCNA reports that "enraged" North Koreans are preparing to launch propaganda leaflets across the Military Demarcation Line, in response to propaganda leaflets sent by North Korean defectors.
2020-06-20

A day after North Korea severed its hotlines with South Korea over defectors who sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets to the border, South Korea announces it is taking legal action against two organisations that conducted such operations, saying that they "have created tension between the two Koreas and caused danger to the border-area residents' lives and safety".
2020-06-10

A North Korean defector claims children are being born with deformities near North Korea's nuclear testing site.
2017-11-7

A North Korean soldier defects to South Korea after swimming across the Han River, the second North Korean defection in a week.
2017-06-18

A North Korean soldier crosses the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and defects to South Korea, the first since September 2016.
2017-06-13

South Korea announces it will be raising its US$217,000 cash reward for classified information from North Korea by defectors to $860,000.
2017-03-5

North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, Thae Yong-ho, defects with his family to South Korea.
2016-08-17

The South Korean Ministry of National Defense states that a North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea after killing two of his superiors.
2012-10-6