When North Koreans visit other countries for the Olympics, what stops some of them fleeing away into that host country?

Now not everybody under these social status are the same. There are a lot of subdivision, an hundred. Being a farmer in the countryside and being a diplomate at the capital isn’t the same.

You are living in the capital. Starvation? Well you have this shop reserved to the elite that is always well filled, but it’s true that last week they have no nutella. Infrastructure problem? Nah, your district has a bunch of technician working 24/24 for you. Dictatorship? Well it’s true there are stuff you shouldn’t do, but if you do daddy will just go plead with the ruler. It’s not like the kim would send an entire family of high qualification worker in a camps.

….Oh, and also infrastructure work 99% of the time ! But when they don’t and you call them the put you on waiting during 2H.

Ive been pretending to be okay and acting as normal as possible, but Im actually completely heartbroken after a recent breakup. Its painful and really affecting me, to the point where I cant concentrate at work, Ive lost my appetite, I cant sleep, and It feels as if my whole world has been turned upside down. I loved him so much. He said so many cruel things to me and it made me realize he must not have loved me the way I loved him, or he wouldnt have said such horrible things. How do I handle the heartbreak and why cant I accept that he didnt love me and just forget about him?

These subdivision in north korea are all. They are kind of nobless status. You inherit them for the most part, some manage to climb up, some manage to fuck up. In both case it impact your whole family.

The organization mean you’re not only on the top. EVERYONE in your family is on the top, and your friend too. If you born into one of these family, then your brother will become an high civil servant, your sis will become a journalist on the first channel, and your childhood friend will become in charge of foreign trade with australia.

Now imagine you decide to use the olympic to flee and go in south korea. Now you’re free !

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…Or not. Your diploma isn’t recognized. And you don’t have relationship. So i hope you like being a construction worker.

…Oh, and law is more permissive now, but you have to actually follow it sooo…

Now, imagine your life at the upper subdivison, the top of the social ladders. The one that produce regime’s journalist, diplomat, authority and generals.

Why won't my mom let me come home if I'm homeless?

Well you got it. North korean that go to see olympic aren’t your average peasant. They are well placed people. Why would they flee north korea and lose everything?

You see, north korea is like any poor country/dictatorship, not everybody is equal. Concretely you have 3 social status

Ah…north korea. The misery, the starvation, the oppressive regime ready to kill you for a fart. A living hell everybody would like to leave.

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The neutral.

The “hostile population”. Typically the old’s world elite, the one considered dangerous, the merchants, the workcamps population.

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…Well not everybody.

The “friend of revolution”. Which count the farmers, the descendant of korean war fighters, the elite,….