{"id":40300,"date":"2022-01-04T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T10:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/double-defector-who-returned-to-north-korea-struggled-financially-in-south"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T10:36:24","slug":"double-defector-who-returned-to-north-korea-struggled-financially-in-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40300","title":{"rendered":"Double defector who returned to North Korea \u2018struggled financially\u2019 in South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man\u2019s decision raises questions about treatment of defectors in South Korea with many said to face discrimination<\/p>\n<p>A North Korean defector who made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/02\/south-korean-crosses-demilitarised-zone-in-rare-defection-to-north\">daring return<\/a> to his home country at the weekend had reportedly struggled to build a new life in South Korea since his arrival just over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has not been named, crossed the heavily armed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/jul\/21\/demilitarised-zone-north-korea\">demilitarised zone<\/a> [DMZ] that has divided North and South since the end of the 1950 to 1953 Korean war, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/double-defector-who-returned-to-north-korea-struggled-financially-in-south\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man\u2019s decision raises questions about treatment of defectors in South Korea with many said to face discriminationA North Korean defector who made a daring return to his home country at the weekend had reportedly struggled to build a new life in South K&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40301,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300\/revisions\/40301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}