The Gallagher campaign needs four out five undecided voters just to tie assuming there are no defectors. That's a pretty significant amount considering he (Gallagher) has never won a tough election.
Quotes about defectors (8 Quotes)
They did quite a bit of good work, but we also discovered that once defectors came out, they told us more information than the inspectors ever had found,
I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.
This is a very interesting element of the British presentation. It was on the basis of that kind of information we had from defectors as far back as 1997 that we conducted some of our most controversial inspections.
Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.
No one has a precise answer. The International Atomic Energy Agency dismantled 40 nuclear-research facilities before the U. N. inspectors left Iraq, including three uranium-enrichment sites. Prior to the inspections, Saddam's stealthiness had been so effective that none of the 40 were known to the outside world. Clearly, Iraq was on its way to becoming a nuclear power. Without ground inspections, those who track Iraq's nuclear development have had to rely on interviews with recent defectors and surveys of suppliers Baghdad has contacted seeking parts. Both suggest that Iraq's nuclear program is back in full swing. Iraq's known nuclear scientists are gravitating to the country's five nuclear research sites, ... That doesn't appear to be coincidental.
Meanwhile, he would continue to plot. Nothing in the last dozen years has stopped him - not his agreements not the discoveries of the inspectors not the revelations by defectors not criticism or ostracism by the international community and not four days of bombings by the US in 1998. What he wants is time and more time to husband his resources, to invest in his ongoing chemical and biological weapons programs, and to gain possession of nuclear arms.
I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.