Struggling in ‘free’ life


Gone underground: The drain that runs under barbed wire fences in Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, which is believed to be used by North Korean defector Kim to cross the border and return home. — Yonhap

OVER 30,000 North Korean defectors risked their lives to cross one of the world’s most heavily fortified borders and settle in South Korea, escaping their communist homeland.

Yet not all of them seem satisfied with their new lives in the more prosperous, democratic South.

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