A view of Gaepung-gun, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea, as seen from the Odusan Unification Observatory in Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do. Reporter Seong Dong-hoon It was found on the 13th that from September 2023, when North Korea lifted the border blockade due to COVID-19, to December last year, the number of North Korean defectors (North Korean defectors) who entered South Korea by crossing the Yalu River or Duman River, the border between North Korea and China, was less than five. During the same period, North Koreans who defected through the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) or the East and West Seas (10 people...