[Kyodo: Korea] Twelve North Korean men fled to South Korea from Russia"s Amur Province in September, the first defections of a group of North Korean workers from the Russian Far East to a third country, Russian security authority officials and other sources said Wednesday. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees helped the North Koreans, who were in Amur as migrant workers, defect and is currently dealing with applications of four other North Koreans who want to go to South Korea.
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