North Korea started to face economic crisis from both out and inside of the country in 1990s. This crisis caused North Koreans to wander in neighboring countries like China and to become defectors These people are called North Korea defectors. The main reason of the defectors is very complicated and is based on internal contradiction of North Korea's political structure. However, the prior reason is economic crises, which was occurred by depression of North Korean economy. The second cause is lost of market and stoppage of aid goods, following socialism collapse. And the third one is natural disaster. North Korea experienced cold weather damage in 1993, hail in 1994, and flood called 'Big Water Damage'. Following these horrible disasters, drought troubled North Korea's economy. Continued natural disasters gave North Korea a finishing stroke, driving its economy into an uncontrollable state.
Those North Koreas defectors who left their home looking for food wander in China and Southeast Asia, and some of them are entering South Korea. However, the reason for extrication is distinguished from old days when North Koreans escaped North Korea for political reasons. The flow of North Korea extrication is continued by people escaping North Korea for better life and freedom. One example is planned North Korea extrication, which indicates that some North Koreans come to South Korea and help their family members to get safely to where they are. Many numbers of high class members that constituted North Korea's political system had joined this flow, meaning that North Korea extrication is not a temporary flow, but a general trend of the time.
It is very regrettable that after all those stormy careers of life or death, North Korea defectors feel hard to adapt to the South Korean society. Poverty and getting a job is an inevitable problem according to difference of economic system. North Korea defectors can overcome language difference after some time. Loneliness and identity problems should be fought by North Korea defectors themselves. However, all these problems should not make the difficult choices worthless. So, I focused on the reasons why North Korea defectors cannot fit into South Korean society, to prevent re-renunciations. This maladjustment occurs mainly because of the prejudice of North Korea defectors, discrepancy of values, an inferiority complex of North Korea defectors, and difference of cultures. These should be solved by understanding, tolerance, and guidance of all of us.
Many of the North Korea defectors suffer from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety disorders. Psychological maladjustments cause some psychological disorders, and the symptoms are mostly caused by extreme defense mechanism. Projection, denial, and displacement can severely harm the relationship between North and South Koreans, living in South Korea. Like this, many of North Korea defectors have entered South Korea with a big hope and South Korea had neglected them with barely any preparations. It makes two Koreas' peoples to bear conflicts. And the whole process makes it hard for North Korea defectors to fit into the South Korean society.
To help North Korea defectors settlement and adaptation, a structural frame should be organized, which is supportive to them. This can be attained by empathy and a consultative attitude of careful listening. And the 'cells' of church should be the only frames of empathy and careful listening. Cells are the playground of Christians and the background of Christian beliefs, not just administrative structures. We have to grope for holistic and coordinated supports to make it happen in real world. Temporary, partial, and preventive levels of support would be sublated, because North Korea defectors are like babies learning everything all over again. For this, I have studied holistic and coordinated supports according to WHO and Howard John Clinbell's criterion of holistic. Also, we should keep spiritual-caring attitude in spiritual aspect. A sprit means a wholly person as a corporate body of a flesh and a soul. So, taking care of the North Korea defectors need 6 stages of Healing, Sustaining, Guiding, Reconciling, Nurturing, Sanctification and the viewpoint of Christian way of spirit-caring. At last, I argued that there should be a paradigm shift in treating North Korea defectors as missionary targets. North and South Koreans are the same race. We just had not met each other for more than 60 years after the division of Korea. Therefore, those people are new targets of missionary and we should go and look for them. If we access North Korea defectors with this attitude, psychological unity would happen more easily and would bring up the unified model of unification with indicating a substitute plan for peace of the divided regions.