The North Korea and It's neighbors.

  Hello everyone! As all of you perhaps know, North Korea or Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea is closed country. Frankly saying North Korean government controls all the world information that comes in and sort of filter it, after what there is might be nothing to deliver to all the people. There are many internet sources which claims either true facts and rumors about the real life of South Koreans, many broad debates about right or wrong government policy, many discussions about the reunification of North and South Koreas. However in my blog I would like to share with you some statistics about North Korean refugees in the neighbor countries. 

I was inspired by the weekly reading material from the "Understanding Korea" course about two Koreas. Through the learning material I started to search more and more and I could not pass by the such pathetical topic. Statistics is the best way to briefly and at the same time consummate demonstration of what I have searched about.

Thus here is some statistics of North Korean Defectors in China:

According to North Korea Statistics, there are 300,000 North Korean refugees hiding in China now. Besides 80 percent of refugees is women. However their situation is on the edge of abyss since CHINA’S FORCED REPATRIATION OF NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES INCURS UNITED NATIONS CENSURE.

North Korean refugees In Russia: 

Experts estimated in the mid-2000s that at least 10,000 North Koreans were arriving every year to work in Russia, which has a 19-kilometer border with their country according to The Moscow Times Journal.

North Korean refugees in South Korea:

Reasons abound, but most sources cite the increasing difficulty in gaining everyday necessities, such as food and housing within North Korea. Official statistics from the South Korean government illustrate the rapid increase in the number of North Korean refugees entering South Korea after 1998, when several years of famine killed thousands, if not millions. 

* Korean News Record

  

Source: North Korean Refugee Foundation

This is not the all list of countries where North Korean defectors were desperated to go. On the photo below you can see some other "shelter" places.

 In all the mentioned countries the refugees have many issues and difficult times. And all of them in the deep parts of their hearts dream about the bright future when they could go to motherland without any fear to be caught and punished for the wish to live by which they were affiliated to escape.