Defector steals village bus to return to North Korea, citing difficult life in the South
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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He might be a hero over there now, they can certainly use a working bus…
I am sure they will be very kind and understanding.
Still at least things got worse.
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?
Going to lose his seoul to go to hell
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.Â
Seems like something NK would set up to portray them in a positive light lmao
Odd thing to steal. Unless the north needed a bus lol.
He’ll use the bus as his Mobil home .
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.
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.
The article won’t load and I am super bummed. I am trying to fathom how someone could think North Korea is better…
They will sing his praises after they execute him.
Ones he goes back north.. it will be a system shock.
Probably a spy from the North, he had just completed his mission or something. Â
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)
Is this the Korean Doctor House?
South koreans are pretty hostile/discriminatory to NK defectors. It was probably pretty stressful for him there.
Cue the dumb fuck tankies
Institutionalized.
Very hard to believe
They should investigate if he was a spy who was about to get exposed.
Can’t imagine that things will be great when he returns.
Good luck to him. I hope he doesn’t get executed for defecting in the first place.
…and was immediately executed.
Pretty sure Koreans who move to the states feel the same way. Ain’t nobody want to live in a dystopia like South Korea
He Shawshank’d himself
Tourism will be lit when they open their borders in December.