| Survey Shows N. Koreans Feel More Negative About S. Korea |
| 2014-08-27 Updated. |
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 A new survey shows that North Korean public sentiment about South Korea is becoming more negative.
The Seoul National University Institute for Peace and Unification Studies announced Wednesday the result of its recent survey on 149 North Korean settlers in South Korea who escaped from the North last year.
Of the defectors, only 55-point-seven percent responded that they had considered the South a cooperation partner when they were living in the North. It is a significant drop from a similar survey conducted on North Korean escapees who left home in 2012, when 63-point-nine percent of the surveyed said so.
On the other hand, 20-point-one percent of those surveyed this year said they had regarded the South as a hostile enemy when they were in the North, up by seven-point-three percentage points from the previous survey.
The portion of those who had thought that there was a high chance for the South to militarily provoke the North also increased substantially from 45-point-nine percent to 63-point-seven percent during the same period.
Professor Kim Byung-ro at the institute said the escalated inter-Korean tensions last year and the North’s strengthened propaganda offensive against the South appear to have affected the North Korean populace's views on the South.
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