43 North Koreans defected to South in Q1 this year: S. Korean Unification Ministry

통일부, "1분기에 탈북민 43명 입국" Staying with North Korea. 43 people came to South Korea from the North during the first quarter of this year. Eight of those were men, and 35 were women. The Unification Ministry announced the figure on Tuesday. A senior ministry official said it's slightly lower than the 57 who defected to the South in the fourth quarter of last year, but is up from the first quarter of last year, when 34 people came to the South. These days, defectors from North Korea usually come to the South via a third-country such as China due to tightened surveillance. The total number of defectors to the South is over 34-thousand. #SouthKorea #Unification_Ministry #NorthKorea #Defector #대한민국 #북한 #통일부 #탈북민 #입국 #Arirang_News #아리랑뉴스 ? Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/arirangtvnews ? Twitter : https://twitter.com/arirangtvnews ? Homepage : https://v2.arirang.com/ 2024-04-30, 18:00 (KST)