In the dystopian orwellian red fascist soviet onion, leaving the country is illegal!!!!!
But last week, prosecutors indicted Kim on charges of breaching the National Security Act on several counts, including plotting to escape to North Korea, which the law stipulates as an “anti-government organisation that threatens the existence and security” of the nation or its free democratic order.
I guess the real Korea would say "Right back at ya."
“It would invite international ridicule if you charge someone who is only fighting to go back home with threatening national security for sharing her daughter’s letters on Facebook,” Jang said.
Based defense lawyer
Yeah and then people go "Why would these NK defectors lie about how NK really is? They could always go back but choose not to!"
We'd have no way to know. Even if I could see their news papers or speak to their citizens, I wouldn't understand what they say. I'd depend on someone else to translate.
There's a documentary in youtube about these people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0