This experimental study focused on the effects of news frames and exemplarsin news reports that dealt with repatriation of North Korean defectors. Atotal of 242 undergraduates and graduate students participated in theexperiment. The study was designed 4 (News frame: Fact delivering frame,Responsibility attribution for China frame, Responsibility attribution for SouthKorea frame, Human-impact frame) x 2 (Exemplification: Revealed, Didn’t reveal)between subjects factorial experiment in set of the issue of North KoreanDefectors. The results showed that the frames and exemplars impacted newsperceptions and selection exposures significantly. Human-impacted frame madethe strongest issue perception, and responsibility attribution for China frame resulteda longer self-exposure time. When the exemplars were suggested, issueperception was stronger and selection exposure was longer. The difference inthe three attitudinal components, which are cognition, affect, and behavioral intentionaccording to the presentation mode of exemplar (exemplar revealed, exemplardidn't reveal) failed to appear, but the differences in attitudinal componentsby the news frames appeared significantly. Responsibility attribution forframes of China and South Korea and Human-impacted frame influenced cognitionand affect dimension, but all frames didn’t have significant influences on behavioral intention dimension. The audiences that read the Human-impactframe news revealed a worse cognition of the North Korea defectors' humanright conditions, and took the most compassion for them. Furthermore, the audiencesof Human-impact frame had the strongest intention against the repatriationof North Korean defectors and gave the toughest policies for SouthKorea government while provided the greatest supports. On the other hand, allof the audiences showed low intentions to help the North Korean defectors. Inaddition, this experimental study showed that South Korea youths had low attentionsand knowledge concerning the issue of the repatriation of NorthKorean defectors.