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https://www.dailynk.com/english/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/07/DNKF00010757_List.jpg12095There is a growing sense in South Korea that countermeasures are needed in response to recent cases of “re-defection” back to North Korea. It appears that the North Korean security services are holding families in North Korea as de facto hostages in order to lure defectors back to the country. There are also a significant […]