• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    In 2017, when a fleeing North Korean soldier sprinted across the border, North Korean soldiers fired about 40 rounds, before South Korean soldiers could drag the wounded soldier to safety.

    A vast majority of about 34,000 North Koreans who have fled to South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War came via China, which shares a long, porous border with North Korea.

    So is South Korea’s policy to accept all North Korean defectors?

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      13 hours ago

      West Germany also took in everyone who fled from East Germany, they were considered German citizens anyways.

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      What do you want them to do? Send them back?

      At the end of the day the defectors are still Koreans.

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      Of course. Also any civilised country sends North Korean refugees to South Korea. The inhumane shitholes send them back to NK for them to get slaughtered.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 hours ago

      It’s one country, still in a conflict, under a perpetual ceasefire. There are people with families spanning both sides of the border.

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      I believe north Koreans are also the only refugees that South Korea takes.