North Korea refugees find new pressures in South

This picture taken on March 26, 2018 shows former North Korean defector Joo Seung-hyeon during an interview with AFP at a cafe in Seoul. -AFPpic

SEOUL: When elite North Korean soldier Joo Seung-hyeon made his way through the Demilitarized Zone, avoiding minefields and watchtowers to defect to the South, he thought he was going to a prosperous new life.

The reality was more complicated than that.