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Defector Media started with a bang. It's an uphill climb to keep growing — just like in most of digital media.
Defector Media started out with a bang, but now growth is harder to come by. It shows making a livi…
Peter Kafka
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Why is North Korea sending hundreds of trash and turd-filled balloons to South Korea?
On Sunday, a North Korean official announced to the world that they would be scattering “mounds of …
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A North Korean defector was made a minister in South Korea, likely irking Kim Jong Un, experts say
Tae Yongho has become the first North Korean defector to hold a ministerial role in South Korea, wh…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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Russian defectors fighting for Ukraine are attacking their motherland and rolling across the border in tanks: reports
"We are not coming to kill, erase, or punish. We come to live, to liberate you from poverty," said …
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Ukraine's efforts to rack up Russian defectors and their equipment helped land the country an Mi-8 helicopter and fighter jet parts
Since the war began, Ukraine has introduced at least two programs that incentivize Russian soldiers…
Erin Snodgrass
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The majority of Russia's armed forces are against the policies of their leaders, FSB defector says
Another Russian defector said that every second FSB officer wants to run away as they understand Ru…
Sinéad Baker
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Russian defector attempted suicide to avoid being an 'accomplice' in war. He says soldiers don't believe reports that things are going well.
"In the military, no one believes the authorities. They can see what is really happening," a Russia…
Joshua Zitser
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Former North Korean defector who made rare cross-border return home could have been a spy or simply unhappy with life in the South, experts say
The former North Korean defector arrived in the South in November 2020, and worked as a janitor bef…
Ashley Collman
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Another member of a secretive Russian military-intelligence unit has been charged in a brazen UK assassination. Here's how the GRU works.
The poisoning of a defected former Russian military-intelligence officer and his daughter has been …
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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North Korea has the world's largest special-operations force. A defected spy offers hints about how they'd be used in a war.
Not much is known about North Korea's huge special-operations force, but they are believed to be we…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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A North Korean defector says she and others like her are struggling to survive in the South: 'I want to go back and die there — South Korea is as suffocating as the North'
The North Korean woman, who could only escape with one of her sons, said her eldest son was beaten …
Matthew Loh
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The Justice Department is reportedly looking into the PGA Tour's handling of LIV Golf defectors on antitrust grounds
The Wall Street Journal reports that the PGA Tour being investigated for anticompetitive behavior a…
Tyler Lauletta
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A Russian defector said soldiers in his unit raped a mother and daughter and were never jailed when their commanders found out
CNN interviewed a Russian defector now in Europe, whose army unit was linked to alleged war crimes …
Sinéad Baker
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Russian defector says training consisted of being given a weapon, a target and 5,000 bullets. Going to the front line left many broken.
Russian defector Nikita Chibrin told CNN that "no one was doing anything. There was no actual train…
Sinéad Baker
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China plotted to use sex worker, porn, violence to end defector's run for Congress, prosecutors say
China's secret police would use any dirty trick they could think of — a honey trap, planted p…
Laura Italiano
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Former Deadspin writers have formed a new sports website called 'Defector' after a public fight with their billionaire owner led to droves of staff quitting
The new site won't have a "stick to sports" mantra. The journalists also get more collective bargai…
Graham Rapier
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Zoho plans to woo WhatsApp defectors with its own messaging app Arattai
Zoho, the Indian SaaS (Software as a Service) bootstrapped unicorn, is set to launch its own messag…
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Bahujan Samaj Party issues whip to 6 defector MLAs in Rajasthan
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has issued a whip to its erstwhile MLAs to vote against the Ashok Geh…
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North Korean defector who made a daring escape from a Chinese prison was recaptured by authorities after 40 days on the run
Zhu Xianjian crossed into China and was jailed by authorities there in 2013 for stabbing an elderly…
Matthew Loh
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A North Korean defector is on the run in China after escaping from prison 23 days ago, with police offering a $31,000 reward
Zhu Xianjian, 37, was caught shortly after entering China from North Korea in 2013. He was sentence…