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[bassexpander]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/03/120_21012.html

Has anyone talked at length with a North Korean person? Do they ever tell you what their first impression was of South Korea when they arrived, or how it differed from what they had been told?

[Hanson]

My wife's hairdresser (from a few years ago) was a NK defector. She didn't seem like she wanted to talk about it, but my wife loved her accent. My wife asked her a few questions, but the hairdresser just seemed like she wanted to be treated like everyone else and not be seen as "the defector"...

[nicholas_chiasson]

better than what they used to call me
"the defective" I thought they were saying "detective"

[cdninkorea]

[bgreenster]

[xteethx]

I think most North Korean defectors get their first glimpse of a modernized city when they first escape to China so I don't think they are completely shocked by the modernity of Seoul.

When I was in Seoul, I befriended quite a few people who defected from NK and I have to say they were so loving, generous and fun; I miss them a lot. They are in their twenties and studying at a university and I met them at a church that helps support NK defectors. With the people I became close to I was able to ask about how they got to SK and I was really amazed at what they went through. But I don't think they dwell so much on the hardship they experienced in the past but just focus on doing well in school or getting a job like anyone else.

I also met a couple of North Korean refugees when I attended Catacombs, a weekly prayer meeting on Tuesday nights led by Tim Peters of Helping Hands Korea. If you are interested in going, check below link http://helpinghandskorea.org/howtohelp.htm

By the way, a SK movie about NK defectors is coming out in May. I don't know if it will be subtitled in another language but the trailer does look interesting
http://www.crossing2008.co.kr/

[safeblad]

[mistermasan]

delete

[caniff]

SK's policy towards NK has, up until (hopefully) recently, been virtually vomit-inducing.

Then we get the noobs here asking "How can I go to North Korea and give them alot of money which they will use to support their evil regime so that I can then go show everyone a stamp from North Korea in my passport? I want to be like Marco Polo-cool!!"

Run-on sentence, but that seems to be the thought-processes of people who would support that dwarf and his cohorts for their own amusement while hundreds of thousand live in detention camps for thought crimes.

My moral compass tells me to stay out of that cesspool until the regime falls.

[mrgiles]

[nobbyken]

The constitution of both countries, North & South, states that anybody living in Korea (North & South) belongs to that country.
NKs say all Koreans belong to them and SK accepts all Koreans as belonging to SK.

Korean embassies in China and Thailand always help Koreans get back to South Korea.

A side note: I heard of one young, NK man say that he was so happy to get accepted into college in the North (while he was living there), because he was able to avoid army national service of 13 years.

[caniff]

[mrgiles]

[bassexpander]

[JMO]