A Family Of Four Fled North Korea, Kim Jong-Un Ordered Arrest At All Costs

Recently, a household of 4 fled North Korea to China aft dosing the borderline guards with sleeping pills. After learning the news, North Korean person Kim Jong-un declared: “The defectors indispensable beryllium caught and punished nary substance the cost!”

According to The Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean regular newspaper, a household of 4 successful North Korea crossed the Yalu River and escaped to China successful the aboriginal hours of Oct. 1 by creating a information spread astatine the border.

The household seemingly had been making a surviving from smuggling truthful they were acquainted with the way to China. They were often allowed by the guards to beryllium astatine the border.

The household targeted a squadron skipper of the borderline security, with whom they had a bully idiosyncratic relationship. They prepared carbonated drinks and breadstuff dosed with sleeping pills and delivered them successful the aboriginal greeting of Oct. 1 erstwhile the skipper and his squad were connected duty. After the guards fell asleep, the household crossed the river.

After discovering the household had fled, the borderline guards instantly reported the incidental to North Korea’s National Defense Commission. The pursuing day, Kim Jong-un issued an bid stating that his authorities would walk immoderate it takes to bring the defectors backmost and marque an illustration retired of them.

The squadron captain, who had been drugged, reportedly said the household had nary fiscal difficulties, and determination are nary defectors oregon criminals among their relatives. He could not foresee immoderate crushed for the household to escape.

According to the investigation, the family’s flight whitethorn person been owed to the ongoing enhancement of barriers and high-voltage lines successful the borderline areas. The household erstwhile told the borderline guards that they mightiness not beryllium capable to bash concern successful the future, suggesting they volition suffer anticipation and can’t unrecorded a decent life.

North Korea’s National Defense Ministry had requested the assistance of China’s Ministry of Defense and Public Security unit to assistance apprehension the deserters. The North Korean authorities besides went to borderline villages to analyse which residents’ homes the borderline guards frequented. The media suggested that the ambiance successful the borderline country has go progressively tense.

Expert: North Korea—World’s Most Serious Human Rights Tragedy

Suzanne Scholte, president of the North Korea Freedom Coalition, a North Korean human rights radical based successful the United States, told The Epoch Times that North Korea remains 1 of the world’s astir superior quality rights tragedies owed to the “triple dictatorships of the Kim household regime.” And that it is the lone state successful the satellite wherever its citizens are not entitled to a azygous quality close arsenic enshrined successful the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Suzanne Scholte, president of the North Korea Freedom Coalition, a North Korean quality rights radical based successful the United States (Courtesy of Suzanne Scholte).

“They person not a azygous quality right, and the women of North Korea volition archer you that their worth is equivalent to that of a fly,” Scholte said.

“There are thousands of North Korean workers successful China that are enslaved laborers for the [Kim] authorities arsenic astir of their wage goes to the regime. In addition, galore North Korean women successful agrarian towns are bought by Chinese men arsenic “wives” due to the fact that China has had this shortage of women [due to] the one-child policy.”

According to Scholte, “Juche” is the religion of North Korea. From childhood, North Koreans indispensable worship the Kim dictatorship done creeds, prayers, and songs—and larn its doctrines.

“It’s truly demonic and explains wherefore millions of guiltless radical person died astatine the hands of this regime. At slightest 3 cardinal died during the Arduous March—[the North Korean famine, a play of wide starvation unneurotic with a wide economical situation from 1994 to 1998 successful North Korea]—all the deaths preventable, but the authorities utilized humanitarian assistance arsenic a limb against the North Korean people,” Scholte said.

As with each communist countries, North Korea has a immense bid of governmental situation camps wherever full families are incarcerated, if a household subordinate is accused of a crime. Children are successful these camps, and immoderate walk their lives determination arsenic they were calved there. Crimes successful North Korea whitethorn impact listening to South Korean K-pop euphony oregon watching South Korean soap operas, traveling without permission, oregon not decently respecting the dictator.

According to a connection by the Committee for Human Rights successful North Korea, in February 2014, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry connected Human Rights successful North Korea (UN COI) recovered North Korea’s governmental situation camps to beryllium places wherever the astir egregious crimes against humanity are being committed. The crimes see extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape and different sedate intersexual violence, and persecution connected political, religious, and sex grounds.

Scholte estimated determination are betwixt 600 to 1000 North Koreans presently detained successful China’s detention centers who were trying to get to South Korea.

“We indispensable perfectly importune that China let harmless transition to each North Koreans who were trying to get to South Korea. Because it is simply a transgression punishable by decease successful North Korea to permission the state without permission, they volition beryllium executed—perhaps, adjacent publicly—if they are forcefully repatriated backmost to North Korea,” Scholte added.

“North Korean refugees are unique: they are dissimilar immoderate refugees successful the satellite arsenic they person a spot for contiguous resettlement due to the fact that they are [considered] citizens of South Korea nether the [South Korean] constitution. So [the South Korean government] indispensable prosecute with China to guarantee these refugees person harmless transition to South Korea.”

Jinbaek Lee contributed to this report.