The number of North Korean defectors who entered South Korea this year numbered around eleven-hundred at the end of May.
This is up 14 percent from the same time last year.
A Unification Ministry official on Monday told reporters that the rise is considered unusual given the North has tightened border security.
The official added that North Korean defector Cho Myung-chul’s recent appointment to head of the Unification Ministry-affiliated Education for Unification is a great success story. Cho defected to the south in 1994.
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