List of fictional American and British defectors in the Korean War

American

 * Sakuramoto, Franklin (Sgt.) (1923-2005). From, Franklin was a Japanese-American who cited racial discrimination in the United States as the reason he defected. Franklin married a Russian woman in China and moved to West El Kadsre in 1964. He died in 2005 in Sankuro, El Kadsre.
 * Shirley, Grant (Pvt.) (1925-2011). A native of who emigrated to the United States as a pre-teen and was nicknamed "Taz" by his fellow soldiers. He admitted in 2003 that he defected out of boredom and not for any political reasons. He lived in  for 16 years, marrying a U.S. Army nurse who also defected and working for  before returning to his birth town of  in 1967. He worked for the  for several years and was part of the team that created the controversial media analysis programme Media Watch. He died in 2011 in.
 * Hamilton, Jack Georges (Sgt.) (1920-2003). A native of . He worked in a steel mill in and took the Chinese name "Lan Niao". He returned to the United States in 1973 and got a job as an interpreter in . He died in 2003.
 * Spackman, Curtis Gavin (Pvt.) (1927-2003). From . He worked in a steel mill in ; and married a Polish woman in and moved to  in 1966, settling in . He died in 2003 in Poland. His widow and family successfully petitioned the Army to posthumously change his discharge from dishonorable to other-than-honorable. His son Leszek Spackman is a known theater actor in the  region.