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Because you like not getting shot? Even more concretely, people working in the government likely live comfortably enough. It's also not exactly simple to leav
by rtpg 9y ago
Because you like not getting shot?
Even more concretely, people working in the government likely live comfortably enough.
It's also not exactly simple to leave even if you want to. You can get to China, but they'll probably send you back. SK might want you but crossing the DMZ is tricky. I think there are also restrictions on movements within the country. Imagine if you work in some random city in the middle of the country. Good luck getting to a border, let alone crossing it.
And perhaps there aren't better opportunities outside.
Imagine being a NK sysadmin. You defect to South Korea, you probably won't be able to enter the IT market easily (no "real" diploma + realities of the job market) so you'll end up doing part-time at a supermarket or something. Not to mention that you'll probably suffer discrimination due to your background as well. Meanwhile you sacrificed your family.
The trade-off is not obvious at all.
- vacri 9y agoSurely the SK government would be interested in employing an ex-NK sysadmin, who will have intimate knowledge of NK networks?
- jlgaddis 9y agoDebriefing/deposing them, sure. Employing them, I doubt it. You can't give them much in the way of access or privileges, lest they turn out to be a spy.
- helloindia 9y agoPatriotism too.
- legulere 9y agoAlso when you're outside NK, what is going to happen to your family and friends? Guilt by association is used regularly in NK
- test1235 9y agoThey have their "3 generations of punishment" which punishes all those biologically related. http://www.bbnpov.com/?p=904 http://www.bbnpov.com/?p=904
- LoSboccacc 9y agoWell also there's punishment for all your relatives and they aren't beyond running assassinations in foreign countries for high profile targets
- quuquuquu 9y agoThe sad thing is that so much evidence for this exists that it isn't even funny to me anymore. NK will actually and literally torture your famili and attempt to kill you, to the best of its ability, wherever you are on this earth. All because you were born North Korean. Just wow.
- SkyMarshal 9y ago>(no "real" diploma + realities of the job market) Plus suspicions of being a NK mole.