A North Korean defector pulled off a death-defying escape to South Korea, evading border guards with orders to shoot on sight.
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womjunru@lemmy.cafe 4 hours ago
I had a conversation with an ML about how great North Korea was. They kept insisting that people wanted to stay in North Korea, which is why no one left.
stink@lemmygrad.ml 3 hours ago
Didn’t an american in south korea commit a bunch of crimes and then try to defect to the DPRK and got returned back? Why not make that same criticism of the US / South Korea? What makes this person’s scenario different?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 hours ago
To play devil’s advocate, there are defectors in the other direction as well and people who defect and then return. Individual cases aren’t proof of much, especially in such a fertile ground for propaganda.
What’s more persuasive, at least to me, are the public actions of the regime and the fact that The Communist Utopia ™ has a monarchy.