그러한 의미에서 지금까지 귀순용사, 탈북자, 북한이탈주민이라고 불렸던 그들에 대해 '북향민'이라고 호칭할 것을 제안하였다.
In that sense, it was proposed to call them 'Koreans from the North' for those who had been called Returned Warriors, North Korean defectors, and North Korean Defector Residents.