Well, I know that S. Korean churches for years have been working on contingency plans each to “adopt” different N.Korean villages and to feed and clothe them. And one of my friends, a retired S. Korean language professor (born in N. Korea, but his family was able to escape to the South at the beginning of the Korean War), has for a number of years been working on materials for the S.Korean government on teaching North Koreans to speak and understand the Southern dialect, but you are right.
It’s harder in reunification for some than others. Another one of my friend’s parents are both from N.Korea. But they were the only part of their families to escape. Since they were part of the “landlord” class or medical professionals, it is believed that the rest of their two families were executed by the Communists during the Korean war.
“Well, I know that S. Korean churches for years have been working on contingency plans each to “adopt” different N.Korean villages and to feed and clothe them.”
I remember meeting a South Korean tourist in Russia. She had met some North Korean workers on the train from Vladivostok: “They were so friendly and shared some snacks and food with me!”
And I’m like: “Oh nice, so you were fed by North Koreans?”
And then she realized the irony and started laughing.
Despite slave-like treatment some receive, I suppose North Korean laborers have a lot of nice experiences to gain from being in Russia. It’s even free-er than China in some ways. Spiritually speaking as well.
Then of course theirs the gulags and work camps as well..’thousands and thousands’ there for many years under the most atrocious conditions who only know what it is to obey the guards and never make a decision on their own......how to reach them is another population that will require great strategic planning.
I recall one defector from the cap that when he escaped and saw the farmers working in the fields he thought he was looking at paradise...and those farmers were using horse drawn carts or working by hand.
When they go to the South they see such wastefulness of food and such an abundance that it brings great confusion why more isn’t done for those in the camps and nation they left. It’s a heart wretching and gut wretching experience that none of us can even slightly touch on.