North Korean Families Plead for Defectors to Return

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Four of the 31 North Koreans who had crossed the sea border to the South have expressed their wish to defect to the South. But their families in North Korea are pleaing for their return, likely under pressure from authorities in the North.

Families of four North Koreans who said they want to defect to the South have made emotional appeals for their kin to return home. The appeals were made in videos aired on a website operated by the North's propaganda agency.

[Rim Young-ok, Wife of Defector Ok Sung-hyeok]:
"I'm torn up as my husband and brother-in-law are detained in South Korea and cannot return home for more than a month."

Four of the 31 North Koreans had drifted across a tensely guarded sea border between the two Koreas and have expressed their wish to defect. South Korea says they will not be sent back when the rest are repatriated on Friday.

Such defections tend to anger the North, a tightly controlled society that restricts movement of people and flow of information.

Those claimed in the video to be relatives, are believed to be at risk of their own lives in the suppressed North Korean society if their family members defect. They expressed their anger at the South Korean government.

[Bong Eun-ha, Mother of Defector Lee Jeong-hwa]:




"I cannot help being enraged at the South Korean rebel regime's inhumane conduct of falsely insisting that my daughter wants to defect from her own country."

The South repeated on Wednesday that the (quote) "will of the four individuals must be respected" and that they can stay.

[Lee Jong-joo, Spokesman, South Korean Unification Ministry]:
"Four of them want to defect to the South. If the North Korean side wants, we have ever intention to verify their free will in a fair and objective manner."

Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fled the state. Its troubled economy has been made worse by years of Pyongyang's bungled policies and sanctions imposed to punish it for rattling regional security.

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[anthonyn31]

No thanks, i'm staying here in the South.

[willminkorea]

The North is using the families as propoganda. Ridiculous!

[TheTollundWoman]

@amosgoh85

screw the north? no. screw Kim Jong Un, screw the "Workers' party", screw Stalin and Truman for dividing Korea in the first place and allowing Kim Il Sung to take over.

[Geostrategic1]

Come home to commieland, and get plugged!

[Crazybenjiwoo]

preese return we so Ronry.

[amosgoh85]

Screw the North. I am glad that MR KIM JONG IL is dead. Seriously the people in the north are like muppets. And I really hope that korea will unify again when the north regime collapse.

[SuperGetitgotitgood]

I'm betting there was a gun attached to the camera.

[AntiGod]

@willminkorea

It isn't so much propaganda than it is self-preservation. Do you know that if someone commits treason, his or her whole family and 5 neighbouring families all get sent to a death camp? They call it a 'collective responsibility'. So before you do anything silly, think about the 5 other families you're gonna implicate.

[dunnono00]

@SomeRandomFeller

Boo hoo, sweetheart. Just the fact you're replying to me shows you do care very much what I have to say and I have no doubt you read it. Why would I want the respect of some uneducated redneck? You are certainly not worth my respect. Good riddance to you and your bullshit. Good bye, nobody.

[SomeRandomFeller]

@dunnono00 I didn't read your paragraph because I don't care what you have to say. You are no one, not worth my time of day. I do not respect you and I will not bother reading anything you post in the future. You words go unheard by me because you are not worth it. Good by, nobody.

[dunnono00]

@SomeRandomFeller

No, it has made you a dumb fuck with no perspective whatsoever. Go shoot pigs and spout bullshit catchphrases online to make you look tough, moron. What freedom fighting have you ever done? What oppressed Americans have you liberated? You have the nerve to talk about impoverished people undeserving of freedom because they don't have "courage". More like they don't have a government giving them guns and body armor and surrounding them with the finest army.

[SomeRandomFeller]

@dunnono00 well hey, it gives me a better perspective than a shit like you. and show what a dumb ass you are to assume all i have done is "talk" about fighting for freedom. 6 years is more than stupid fucks in america like yourself deserve., YOU are not wirth fighting for. go to the recruiter yourself and do something you cowardly bitch.