# North Korean escape scenario

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-escape-scenario/743091>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 14, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-escape-scenario/743091 "2016-01-14T00:31:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-escape-scenario/743091/21 "2016-01-14T17:15:01Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> Statistically, there is a greater likelihood in the USA than in North Korea that a person will sleep tonight incarcerated in a prison of some kind. Even by the most liberal of estimates of North Korea’s imprisoned population, which is not known with any accuracy.

But Americans aren’t likely to be jailed for criticizing the government or listening to a foreign radio broadcast, etc.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-escape-scenario/743091/22 "2016-01-14T17:21:58Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> Don’t you mean nearly 100%

Yes. Yes I do. Somehow that sentence didn’t end the way I started it :smack:

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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-escape-scenario/743091/23 "2016-01-14T17:26:29Z")

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Plus compared to these [North Korean horror shows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoeryong_concentration_camp) American prisons look like bad hotels. I mean you’re unlikely to be tortured, beaten, starved experimented on or just shot for the hell of it whereas in North Korean camps that’s par for the course.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korean-escape-scenario/743091/24 "2016-01-14T17:27:37Z")

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Fuck yes.

Last year I read every single book I could find out about N Korea escapees. They are a different brand of people in some ways. They have been raised so anti-family that like it says above, family is just competition.

Hell yeah I’d run and leave them behind. That way at least one of my benighted family might survive. And I’d encourage them to do the same.

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