[imText1]The number of North Korean defectors to the South reached ten thousands on January 3, 2007.
Ten thousands North Koreans have escaped from Kim Jong-Il regime’s brutality.
The number is inevitable to increase since a large number of NK refugees are yearning for South Korea while wandering over China and Southeast Asia. Unless Kim Jong-Il quits his desire for ‘military first politic,’ flow of North Korean refugee into the South would continue.
Four decades ago, tens of thousands of ethnic Koreans living in Japan immigrated to North Korea, seeking for ‘socialist heaven.’ At that time, such huge immigration of Koreans was a result of governmental agreement between Tokyo and Pyongyang. And now, even the Korean-Japanese who were deceived by Pyongyang’s propaganda in 50s are trying to go back to Japan. However, North Korean immigrants in Seoul are those who fled from the regime’s persecution. And NK defectors cannot return to their homes in the North unless the regime is changed.
I defected from North Korea seven years ago.
As I was crossing the Tumen River, the border between dictatorship and freedom, I promised myself to comeback to my home someday and liberate North Korea.
Nobody in China was waiting for me, but I could not find any hope in North Korea. I was seeking hope of being free and some food.
According to his autobiography, Kim Il-sung, resolved to liberate Korea from Japanese imperialists, crossed the Yalu. Now North Koreans are leaving the Peninsula.
Some South Koreans do not understand why the defectors left their home in the North. Anyone without experience of hunger and lack of freedom cannot easily comprehend the reason of defection.
But now we have more than ten thousands witnesses of North Korea’s tragic situation. And the defectors would be energy in liberation of the North.
