Reasons for the growing number of fugitives, reported by Yonhap news agency, were not given. But the communist North is facing growing food shortages.

“Two North Koreans from one family defected to the South through the East Sea (Sea of Japan) early on Wednesday, using a small boat,” a spokeswoman for the National Intelligence Service told AFP.

“They have been under questioning by a joint team of government investigators,” she said without elaborating.

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