About 68.7 percent of North Koreans to have ever defected to South Korea are women, a four-month survey conducted by the North Korean Refugees Foundation showed. The survey, made public earlier this year, showed that the number of North Korean defectors entering the South has increased three-fold since the 1990s, and female defectors actually make up more than 70 percent of those coming since 2006. The increasing ratio of women defectors is likely the product of easier mobility for North Korean women. While North Korean men have to participate in the organizational structure of North Korea, women are free from fulfilling such social requirements. “When men don’t show up at work the office starts searching for them,” North Korean defector Park Ji-woo told NK News. “Men are scared to move around.” Women, by contrast, can move across the border and into China with relative ease, she said.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:55:31 +0000
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