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Escape from the 'workers' paradise': Public executions, hunger so severe that boiled eggs were a once-in-a-lifetime (illegal) treat, sold into a brutal marriage. Then – finally – the dramatic moment a brave mother fled her North Korean hell
UK Daily Mail ^ | 6/4/2022 | Jihyun Park

Posted on 06/05/2022 4:44:42 AM PDT by fruser1

It was just after midnight on February 21, 1998, and the banks of the frozen Tumen River separating North Korea from China were engulfed in darkness. We would have to cross the icy river on foot. As I walked, I focused on each step so as not to slip. This also helped me forget my fear.

But I couldn’t help wondering how many innocent souls had been swallowed up by this river and how many had managed to cross the 20-something yards of frozen water and reach China.

And how many others, like me, had abandoned their father on his deathbed, a bowl of cold rice beside him?

It took us 15 minutes to cross from one world into another. We were already well into Chinese soil when we heard the Korean guards behind us shouting: ‘Fugitives!’ We also heard gunshots, but it was too late. We were out of range.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dprk; northkorea; socialism
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Great story about the joys of socialism.
1 posted on 06/05/2022 4:44:42 AM PDT by fruser1
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We’re headed in that direction unless there’s divine intervention.


2 posted on 06/05/2022 4:50:57 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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Escaping INTO China. Explains why China keeps North Korea around.


3 posted on 06/05/2022 4:59:47 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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Coming soon to U.S. cities run by the left.
Not even close to kidding.


4 posted on 06/05/2022 5:03:44 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: fruser1

How bad does it have to be to escape tyranny by fleeing to China?


5 posted on 06/05/2022 5:08:28 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: fruser1

Bttt


6 posted on 06/05/2022 5:08:43 AM PDT by manna
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“We’re headed in that direction unless there’s divine intervention.”

First they have to get control of Ukraine, something that Russia objects to. So the victory of the Globalists/Neocons over Western citizens is not yet a given.


7 posted on 06/05/2022 5:12:24 AM PDT by BobL (My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
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To: HighSierra5

Or a steeling of spines


8 posted on 06/05/2022 5:12:52 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: fruser1

Yeah, but that’s just because the right people weren’t in charge. If the political elite have degrees from Ivy League schools, socialism is guaranteed to work.


9 posted on 06/05/2022 5:13:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives want to demoralize people so that they are afraid to be ambitious.)
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We’re headed in that direction unless there’s divine intervention.

Indeed we are. The "cancel culture" of the mindless progressives demands obeisance to the collective "will" of the totalitarian state.
10 posted on 06/05/2022 5:13:34 AM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: fruser1

The story is exactly the future the Democrats want for us...


11 posted on 06/05/2022 5:25:36 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: Da Coyote

You believe “coming soon” states ie. California and Mass. will start shooting at people that wish to leave?


12 posted on 06/05/2022 5:26:27 AM PDT by Jolla
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NK must be really bad if people think they’re going to have a better life in China.

Notice how biden is moving us closer to life in NK?


13 posted on 06/05/2022 5:30:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to first kick the dems out of office.)
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To: fruser1

There are numerous videos by NK defectors that detail daily life that might open some US college students’ eyes if they would bother to listen.


14 posted on 06/05/2022 5:46:57 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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SARC// When the cities get that back... We will shoot them if they escape. They kept our taxes for their subways and metro services while we sucked up the high price of gas.... Turned back by patroits, the remanents of the DNC canabalized themselves with the ferral native populations... The patroits established DMZs around America’s cities preventing the spread of the socialist and communist hordes. Highway exchanges were destroyed, rail lines destroyed, and even humanitarian aide was ended because of the crime lords and dangerous nature of the city dwellers. It only took Seven Years of this Hell for normal Americans to establish new communities of less than 500 people and litmited to 1250 increased every twenty-five years so prevent “climate change”. Without the great cities, there was no longer much need to worry about the heat from human activity;) SARC OFF.


15 posted on 06/05/2022 5:48:27 AM PDT by Jumper ( )
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How bad is it in North Korea.... that escaping into Communist China is a salvation?!


16 posted on 06/05/2022 5:51:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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“How bad does it have to be to escape tyranny by fleeing to China?”

Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire...


17 posted on 06/05/2022 5:56:55 AM PDT by moovova
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Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire...

More like out of the fire into the frying pan.

18 posted on 06/05/2022 5:59:50 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Jolla

Calif has already tried to enforce legislation that FINES persons for moving out of Calif. Even fining persons that DIE there.


19 posted on 06/05/2022 6:03:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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Joy of Socialism. Bernie, the Squad and the American left needs to read this...and we won’t give up...Civil War might be the only solution.


20 posted on 06/05/2022 6:15:22 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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