• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I know a good number of North Koreans would love to defect if there weren’t going to be consequences for their families back home. Put those people in a situation where they can just disappear and have it explained as being honorably slain in combat? Seems like a golden opportunity if the country they defect to doesn’t just send them back.

    • PyroNeurosis
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      9 hours ago

      I know a good number of North Koreans…

      How do you know so many North Koreans?

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        8 hours ago

        Hah, got me there.

        I did actually meet a North Korean once when I spent a fair bit of time in Seoul during a study abroad program, but she “defected” as a child (read: smuggled into the South via China by some Christian group) and didn’t really have much recollection of what life in the North was even like. Definitely not many though!

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      8 hours ago

      Hi Kim, me and my whole family wants to def … go to Ukraine and die for you!!

      The whole family!