NK At a Glance

Some compelling statistics on North Korea:

24,000,000
North Koreans

1,000,000 – 3,000,000
Starved in the mid-1990s

300,000
Refugees in hiding in China

250,000
Imprisoned in concentration camps.

70%-90%
Women refugees in China trafficked in the sex trade

40%
Of North Korean people urgently in need of food assistance

15-30%
North Korea’s GDP used to support the military even during famine

15,000
NK refugees resettled in South Korea

93
NK refugees resettled in the U.S.

13/93
Refugees resettled through LiNK in the U.S.