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North Korean defectors get automatic citizenship in the South , but face challenges.
Hanawon is a government-run center for newly arrived female defectors.
The facility is a symbol of the South 's will to "welcome and embrace defectors and all North Korean people" The number of defectors reaching South Korea has plummeted in recent years .
South Korea has become more hawkish under President Yoon Suk Yeol , who took office in May 2022 .
North Korea has ramped up provocations and hostility toward the South and the U.S. North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liaison office building, north of the Demilitarized Zone , in 2020 and ceased routine communications with the South .
South Koreans have grown less sympathetic to the Unification Ministry's original mission.
Preference for "peaceful division" exceeded the preference for unification for the first time.
Possible changes in attitude toward unification have also emerged in North Korea .
Some experts raise the possibility that North Korea may be preparing to ditch the two Koreas' "special interim relationship".
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