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In 2020, North Korea’s state media widely publicized the redefection case of a 24-year-old North Korean who swam across a river back to the North.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2022

Still, word about Kim’s redefection is slowly spreading in the region along the North Korea-China border, according to Daily NK, a Seoul-based news service with informants inside North Korea.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2022

For waiting U.S. welfare workers, who had given them a start in a new country, the young Russians had no words to explain their redefection.

From Time Magazine Archive

Friends of Svetlana's expressed surprise and concern at her redefection.

From Time Magazine Archive