List of Cold War Pilot Defections

South Korea

In September 1949, a South Korean pilot, 1st Lieutenant Pak Yong-Ju, defected with his Stinson L-5 to North Korea.
On December, 3 1952, a South Korean Army Aviator student 2-nd Lt. Kug Yong Am deserted to the communists and had landed his L-19 51-4794 on the airfield at Pyongyang.
In October 1953, a South Korean pilot-instructor Capt. Kim Sung Bai defected with an F-51 Mustang fighter plane to Communist North Korea.
On January, 20 1954, a South Korean pilot 2-nd Lieutenant Choi Mai Chong flew an L-19 light observation plane to the Communists.

“There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear—the city of London and the South Seas.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

List of Cold War Pilot Defections - South Korea