There are plenty of stories of defectors from the DPRK who end up hating it in SK (mostly people who don't sell salacious stories about the DPRK) and want to go back, but are legally barred by SK from doing so.
Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul really does a great job of showing how reality is the inverse of what we're taught. People coming from the North to the South are detained, tortured, monitored, and utterly controlled.
CW: suicide
A scene that really stuck with me is the woman talking about how her grief over her inability to ever see her family again caused her to attempt to take her life, only to have spooks swarm over her within minutes. Dystopian.
There are plenty of stories of defectors from the DPRK who end up hating it in SK (mostly people who don't sell salacious stories about the DPRK) and want to go back, but are legally barred by SK from doing so.
i.e. "they will be shot in the back if they try"
Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul really does a great job of showing how reality is the inverse of what we're taught. People coming from the North to the South are detained, tortured, monitored, and utterly controlled.
CW: suicide
A scene that really stuck with me is the woman talking about how her grief over her inability to ever see her family again caused her to attempt to take her life, only to have spooks swarm over her within minutes. Dystopian.