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    Überläufer stiehlt Dorfbus, um nach Nordkorea zurückzukehren, unter Berufung auf das schwierige Leben im Süden


    Überläufer stiehlt Dorfbus, um nach Nordkorea zurückzukehren, unter Berufung auf das schwierige Leben im Süden

    https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-10-01/national/northKorea/Defector-steals-village-bus-to-return-to-North-Korea-citing-difficult-life-in-the-South/2145637

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    1. neuhmz on

      He might be a hero over there now, they can certainly use a working bus…

    4. disregardable on

      was it too expensive to fly to China then take the train in? did he hope to evade North Korean authorities and just pretend to be someone else? or just a complete mental break?

    6. cehsavage on

      If he had succeeded and he didn’t already strike a deal to be used for PR he might be fucked, but it’s also something I can see North Korea setting up intentionally, again for propaganda. 

    7. HurryPsychological14 on

      Seems like something NK would set up to portray them in a positive light lmao

    10. Reasonabledwarf on

      People of all kinds have real trouble adjusting when cut off from their support structures. It doesn’t matter if it’s your family, your culture, your language, or something more material like your home and your job, and it also doesn’t matter if all that stuff came with grinding poverty or literal imprisonment. Pretty similar to institutionalization in prisons here in the states, but worse because it’s all you’ve known your entire life.

    11. macross1984 on

      Well, the defector found out life in the south was not panacea as he thought. Still, I would have thought he’d at least gained weight because there is more food in the south.

    12. skipnw69 on

      The article won’t load and I am super bummed. I am trying to fathom how someone could think North Korea is better…

    15. Mod_All on

      Probably a spy from the North, he had just completed his mission or something.  

    16. sarahmagoo on

      I remember watching a video on a guy that escaped North Korea and ended up studying at a university in South Korea.

      The stress from studying and trying to keep up with everyone else nearly drove him to suicide, which to me is wild considering the horrific shit he had to deal with in North Korea.

      Edit: found the video, it’s split into parts. [Here’s part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyqUw0WYwoc) and [Part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmzpMP3bEE) is where he speaks about how he contemplated suicide because he didn’t think he could compete with South Koreans (at 14:24). (In part 1 a woman talks about an execution she witnessed and it gets a bit graphic just fyi)

    18. Neither_Basket5973 on

      South koreans are pretty hostile/discriminatory to NK defectors. It was probably pretty stressful for him there.

    22. GlobalTravelR on

      They should investigate if he was a spy who was about to get exposed.

    24. FakeOng99 on

      Good luck to him. I hope he doesn’t get executed for defecting in the first place.

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