• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    They need access to a better place. I suppose they just get financially stuck in S Korea? Or do the move on to other countries too, more willing to give them a chance?

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      4 months ago

      North Korean expats are functionally stateless, so it is very difficult to leave South Korea even when they do have money.

      The largest portion of the Korean diaspora live in China and Russia.

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        4 months ago

        Is it difficult because airlines and whatnot won’t carry them, or because the receiving country won’t let them immigrate due to being “stateless”?

        Are they stateless in a way someone coming from Bolivia to the US isn’t, because NK’s outside of some globally-recognized state system? I’ve never considered this before.