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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But wait, I heard from someone on .ML that North Korea was the better Korea, why are people defecting?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

I’m confused, are you implying that the presence of non-defectors who want to go back means the defectors who don’t want to go back are wrong?

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

You realize there are reasons someone who didn't resolve themselves to leave in the first place might want to go back even if their home country is terrible, right? Family, having to start over from scratch, propaganda, etc.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That article isn't as damning as you think it is, these were sailors/fishermen that drifted into south Korea, not defectors that have been living in S Korea for years and want to return

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

In 2017, when a fleeing North Korean soldier sprinted across the border, North Korean soldiers fired about 40 rounds, before South Korean soldiers could drag the wounded soldier to safety.

A vast majority of about 34,000 North Koreans who have fled to South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War came via China, which shares a long, porous border with North Korea.

So is South Korea’s policy to accept all North Korean defectors?

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 30 points 1 month ago

West Germany also took in everyone who fled from East Germany, they were considered German citizens anyways.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

What do you want them to do? Send them back?

At the end of the day the defectors are still Koreans.

[–] rustyfish@piefed.world 17 points 1 month ago

Of course. Also any civilised country sends North Korean refugees to South Korea. The inhumane shitholes send them back to NK for them to get slaughtered.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

It's one country, still in a conflict, under a perpetual ceasefire. There are people with families spanning both sides of the border.