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Leaving North Korea at any price
MSNBC.com ^ | 11-18-2007 | Blaine Harden

Posted on 11/18/2007 5:40:48 PM PST by rdl6989

SEOUL - Brokers here are busily selling what they call "planned escapes" from North Korea.

Given enough money, the brokers say, they can now get just about anyone out of the dictatorial Stalinist state that human rights activists call the world's largest prison.

A low-budget escape through China via Thailand to Seoul, which requires treacherous river crossings, arduous travel on foot and several miserable weeks in a Thai immigration jail, can cost less than $2,000, according to four brokers here.

A first-class defection, complete with a forged Chinese passport and an airplane ticket from Beijing to Seoul, goes for more than $10,000. From start to finish, it can take as little as three weeks.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: korea; koreanrefugees; northkorea

1 posted on 11/18/2007 5:40:49 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: TigerLikesRooster

ping


2 posted on 11/18/2007 5:41:13 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Does it come with a “money back guarantee?”

Oops, if you are dead, it may be hard to remit back your receipt for a refund.


3 posted on 11/18/2007 5:46:21 PM PST by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: rdl6989
Last year, China also increased border security.

Hmm, there's an idea.

4 posted on 11/18/2007 5:52:53 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

I wonder how Coyote translates into Korean?

You know you have problems when attempting to emigrate is illegal.


5 posted on 11/18/2007 5:55:37 PM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion worth what you paid.)
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To: rdl6989

Why would they want to leave a Communist Paradise and such a wonderful, benevolent leader?


6 posted on 11/18/2007 5:56:44 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: rdl6989; Jet Jaguar; AmericanInTokyo; Tamar1973; monkapotamus; All

This so sadddd


7 posted on 11/18/2007 5:56:57 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Fraxinus
I wonder how Coyote translates into Korean?

Er, uh..."BBQ?"

8 posted on 11/18/2007 5:58:56 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: rdl6989

That whole article was an interesting (and sad) read. Thanks for posting it.


9 posted on 11/18/2007 5:59:48 PM PST by KJC1
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To: KJC1

My pleasure.


10 posted on 11/18/2007 6:02:36 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

BTTT


11 posted on 11/18/2007 6:05:17 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: sam_paine
Er, uh..."BBQ?"

probably tastes a lot like tiger......

lol

12 posted on 11/18/2007 6:15:35 PM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion worth what you paid.)
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To: rdl6989; All

The negotiations that our traitorous foggy bottom is conducting will attempt (again) to provide diplomatic cover for financial (and other) incentives whose purpose and result will be to prop-up the dictatorship before the country implodes.

That was the purpose of their nuclear blackmail, since the 1990s and Clinton/Carter/Halfbright went to their rescue. Now Condi, under the sway of her mentors at foggy bottom, is attempting the same feat.

Apparently Clinton/Carter and now Bush have a problem with the legitimate implosion of an immoral dictatorship.


13 posted on 11/18/2007 6:40:07 PM PST by Wuli
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To: rdl6989

Good post.

$12,000 is a small sum for freedom.

But the world has turned its back on this travisty to long.


14 posted on 11/18/2007 6:44:30 PM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: rdl6989

Good post.

$12,000 is a small sum for freedom.

But the world has turned its back on this travisty to long.


15 posted on 11/18/2007 6:45:20 PM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: rdl6989

Get their nuke scientists out.


16 posted on 11/18/2007 7:10:21 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: rdl6989
I'd venture to say that Kim Jong Il is one of the five most evil persons on the planet.

I will openly cheer his death.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

17 posted on 11/18/2007 7:19:44 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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