Northern Departure

Some people want to go back:

According to the Seoul Unification Ministry, since 2012, more than 24,000 people have fled to the South from North Korea. By comparison, they could only confirm roughly 30 traveling in the other direction. So has something changed in North Korea recently making it a more attractive place to live? That seems unlikely in the extreme. North Korea remains a closeted hermit nation held in the iron grip of Kim Jong-un and his family. It's a terrible place to live where the government locks up massive numbers of people in isolated work camps and neighbors rat out their own friends and family to avoid being prosecuted themselves. Starvation is a constant threat in that country, with medical care and other critical social services being in short supply unless you are a member in good standing with the ruling party. Why would anyone be willing to go back there?

The view is always redder from the other side...