Wow, it says these were "Government Officials", so this is quite different than just the common people living under the boot heel of the authoritarian Communist government.
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North Korean Would-Be Defectors Arrested in Emergency Operation Near China Border
North Korean authorities arrested seven out of a group of 15 government officials from Pyongyang who were allegedly attempting to defect by crossing the border into China, RFA has learned.
Local sources told RFA’s Korean Service that North Korea security agents flew to Samjiyon Airport in an emergency operation as the 15 had split into smaller groups to evade capture.
The seven were arrested in a village near the border, while it is believed that the other eight were able to escape. Members of the group may have been carrying secret information in the form of official government documents.
Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/nk-defectors-emergency-arrest-01292020203545.html
Our headway in nuclear talks with NK seem limited, just for me, time to start talking to them about human rights more.
I've posted this graphic before and it probably can be debated at that, but these are the "5 MOST Communist Countries in the World",
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Obviously, China has an economic model nowadays, that I believe, one would certainly call more Capitalistic than Communist and yes, we may have helped them shed the poverty they had with Communism.
I personally, wouldn't call China Communist. I heard this discussed this weekend. They have a model that is Communism but the economic system at least, is not.
