{"id":48015,"date":"2021-03-22T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=48015"},"modified":"2021-03-22T07:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:03:42","slug":"father-daughter-arrested-while-trying-defect-across-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/father-daughter-arrested-while-trying-defect-across-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and daughter arrested while trying to defect across border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A male resident of Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, who had been suffering from financial hardships due to the COVID-19 outbreak, was caught attempting to defect with his daughter, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that \u201cthe man in his 40s, who was raising his daughter on his own without his wife, was going through hard times and struggling to survive after losing his livelihood due to COVID-19.\u201d The source said that \u201che [and his daughter] was caught by the Ministry of State Security (MSS) as they attempted to cross the river from Namyang on Mar. 1.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, \u201cthe man had been left without any means to make a proper living after the closure of the border due to COVID-19, and left his home on Mar. 1 with intentions to cross the river.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK understands that the man planned to defect through the route that he had used to secretly cross the river into China once or twice a year in order to make money before the COVID-19 outbreak.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man had brought his 13-year old daughter to Onsong\u2019s Namyang Workers\u2019 District, an area that lies on the Tumen River and directly faces Tumen City in Jilin Province, China. On the day of the defection attempt, he had told his daughter to arrive at a specific spot by 6 PM, where he would be waiting for her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The daughter, however, was caught by the border patrol as she passed by a cave to get to the agreed meeting place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43024\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"North Korean soldier secretly defectors\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/5490782435_d11560f871_o.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean soldier stationed at the Sino-DPRK border \/ Image: Roman Harak, Flickr, Creative Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The border guards had reportedly been suspicious when they saw a girl wearing shabby clothes approaching a cave alone in the evening. They questioned her about where she was going and the frightened girl told them she was going to cross the river with her father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source explained that \u201cthe border guards handed the girl over to agents from the Ministry of State Security, who approached the place where the father was hiding.\u201d He added that \u201cthe man, who was waiting for his daughter, was eventually arrested and taken away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the investigation, the man reportedly confessed that \u201cI attempted to defect with my daughter despite the risk of death because we were starving and had no other way of surviving.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, \u201cthe man, who had been caught and interrogated by security officials in Namyang, was sent to the MSS branch in Onsong on Mar. 8, and local residents saw him [being transferred in a state where] he was unable to stand up properly with his front teeth broken.\u201d The source added that \u201can MSS official said the man would not survive because he made a defection attempt while COVID-19 disease prevention measures are in place.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK has become aware that although the MSS released the daughter after three days, she is currently starving in an empty house because she has no one to look after her. \u201cAs her father was arrested for attempting to defect, I doubt she will be sent to an orphanage,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Vilde Olaussen<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/10%eb%8c%80-%eb%94%b8%ea%b3%bc-%ed%95%a8%ea%bb%98-%ed%83%88%eb%b6%81%ed%95%98%eb%a0%a4%eb%8d%98-%ed%9a%8c%eb%a0%b9-40%eb%8c%80-%eb%82%a8%ec%84%b1-%eb%b3%b4%ec%9c%84%eb%b6%80%ec%97%90-%eb%b6%99\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male resident of Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, who had been suffering from financial hardships due to the COVID-19 outbreak, was caught attempting to defect with his daughter, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that \u201cthe man in his 40s, who was raising his daughter on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":42409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-china-north-korea-border","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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