Drunk North Korean Man Floats to South Korea - Page 6

On September 13 2012 13:20 jidolboy wrote:
What made me surprised is that the man had the access to liquor. I thought they forbade the sale because "root of evil aka Democracy" ideas would be developed. Plus it would have been expensive if it is for sale

On September 13 2012 13:25 udgnim wrote:


I'm guessing he was one of the more privileged North Koreans

On September 13 2012 05:22 Voltaire wrote:
So does any North Korean who makes it over the border get to stay there?

If so, we (as in TL users) should start sneaking people across with scuba equipment.

On September 13 2012 05:45 Fawkes wrote:
If North Korea figures out who he is and he has family...pretty sure they are screwed if he doesn't go back or something.

On September 13 2012 13:39 JieXian wrote:
Wow wowwow. Sounds too amazing to be actually be true :D



If he goes back they'd probably spare them and kill him

On September 13 2012 13:50 Caphe wrote:

Nah, He would get rewarded since he didn't join the "evil" South. But if he stays, surely his family will suffer, thats why NK people don't mass defect to SK.
Still, many people here got brainwashed so much by the Western media, NK is not that bad compare to the middle East. They have access to many things(hence their Chinese neighbour). They just got the Kim family as their religion thats all.

On September 13 2012 05:20 arb wrote:
Sometimes you get drunk and instead of doing something awful, you escape communism and get offered citizenship in another nation!

On September 13 2012 05:26 SayGen wrote:
Lucky guy. For those who don't know you get shot if your cross the DMZ, by your own people.

On September 13 2012 14:18 FabledIntegral wrote:


I have never heard this before. Are you sure?

They rank by far as the worse standard of living in the world by almost all metrics. They're generally considered to be living in the most oppressed society in the world. Of course, I live in the West, so I may have succumbed to this bias you speak of, but with pretty much all of America's negativity focused on the Middle East and NOT North Korea, that's a surprising comment to me that it would be the media distorting our views.

On September 13 2012 13:20 jidolboy wrote:
What made me surprised is that the man had the access to liquor. I thought they forbade the sale because "root of evil aka Democracy" ideas would be developed. Plus it would have been expensive if it is for sale

On September 13 2012 22:32 heroyi wrote:

yea its true

They do have the worst standard living or at least in the top 2. Previously before there was one who somehow escaped and retold his life experience of eating corn out of a cow's dung. Considered himself lucky that day. He was also baffled at how SK lived and wondered why people weren't..umm..."stressed" or more committed to helping NK.

NK is known to use families as a tool/hostages.

The man was bad, but here's the BBC on what he also did:

During Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule, Libya has made great strides socially and economically thanks to its vast oil income, but tribes and clans continue to be part of the demographic landscape.

Women in Libya are free to work and to dress as they like, subject to family constraints. Life expectancy is in the seventies. And per capita income - while not as high as could be expected given Libya's oil wealth and relatively small population of 6.5m - is estimated at $12,000 (£9,000), according to the World Bank.

Illiteracy has been almost wiped out, as has homelessness - a chronic problem in the pre-Gaddafi era, where corrugated iron shacks dotted many urban centres around the country. - Libya crisis: what role do tribal loyalties play? BBC Monitoring, 21st February, 2011