North Korean Families Plead for Defectors to Return

Families of four North Koreans who said they want to defect to the South have made emotional appeals for their kin to return home. The appeals were made in videos aired on a website operated by the North’s propaganda agency. [Rim Young-ok, Wife of Defector Ok Sung-hyeok]: "I'm torn up as my husband and brother-in-law are detained in South Korea and cannot return home for more than a month." Four of the 31 North Koreans had drifted across a tensely guarded sea border between the two Koreas and have expressed their wish to defect. South Korea says they will not...