How North Korea Finally Made It Impossible to Escape

My grandparents were both from North Korea, and they had an insane 6th sense of knowing what North Korea would become. They told me Kim Il Sung gave them nothing but bad vibes and didn't want to stick around. As soon as the Korean War ended, they, as well as my grandfather's little brother, escaped North Korea to the South when the borders were still being built up and defenses were nonexistent. They pretty much left the rest of their family behind and are presumably still in North Korea. It's kind of crazy to think that I, as well as the rest of my current family, could have been stuck in North Korea if my grandparents didn't go with their hunch and remained in the regime.

Imagine sending a two-year-old to life because their parents read a book. It's almost literally unbelievable.

my step dad in uni taught a man in Australia around 60 years old who escaped North Korea, he was so interested and had passion in everything he was always doing work. This shows how glad and happy they are to be out of the country and how much of a hell hole North Korea could have been. I wish I could have questioned the dude but it was 3 years ago.

The sad part is we only saw the numbers for the successful detectors. We have no idea how many have perished trying to escape. If I had to guess it may be in the hundreds of thousands.

The worst part about this is that this isn't history, its happening right now.

The whole country is nothing more than an open air prison. I can't even find the words to describe how evil a person would have to be to do that to the citizens. Heinous, disgusting and deplorable.

Watching this while comfortably getting McDonald's delivered to my house through doordash. We take things for TOO granted sometimes

Why is no one talking about how SMOOTH that Advertisement lead up was 💀💀 Like talking about electronics in Korea and App bans in china and then America and then BOOM! Nord VPN advertising… Like that was so smooth what-

Those 210 people who managed to escape during the pandemic must have balls of absolute steel. I can't imagine feeling like you have no choice but to walk into certain death for a better life.

My mother and (supposedly) father are defectors. I dont know them since my father disappeared and my mom decided to allow me to be adopted. I did a project on defection from North Korea and there has been a massive decline in defectors over the past few years due to massive crackdowns in the country. Its depressing to me to know that there are kids who wont be able to live civilized lives outside of the DPRK because their parents couldnt escape

i still dont understand how even after telling this with sources, theres tankies on twitter saying that all of this is false.

Sometimes when I'm feeling like garbage and depressed about the way my life's going, I only have to think about how lucky I am to be born in the USA and about how many people aren't as lucky as me, and the depression about my life goes away, only for it to come back as depression for all these people stuck in literal Hells on Earth.

I'm hoping that I get to experience the fall of NK in my lifetime. One of my friend's parents fled North Korea back in the 70's and made their way to the United States. Hearing the stories from my friend's dad really puts it into perspective on how lucky we are in the US.

Imagine living in a country so terrible they have to build massive walls and barbed fences to keep people IN.

I'm watching this video from Paju, only 12km from North Korea

2:06 that little girl on the left end trying to make his little sibling bow as well. thats sad

What you didn't even mention was that for many of the people who actually did manage to save up the money for a broker, they were immediately sold into slavery in China and Russia by the very brokers themselves. And if they did manage to escape slavery at some point, they almost immediately ended up in police custody and got deported back into NK where the only thing awaiting them was more slavery.

You'd also need to consider that it is very hard to even obtain all the needed information. Like, knowing which country is safe and which isn't surely isn't written in school books.

The people in North Korea are going through absolute hell..I feel bad for all the people there, imagine your parents being arrested because they read a book.. unbelievable

Kind of amazing that Google Maps still has a lot of data on North Korea!