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Provincial state security officers questioned each of the four separately, and all confessed that they were &#8220;trying to reach South Korea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The provincial state security officers refused to feed them properly during questioning, saying, &#8220;Betraying our party and state to go to our enemy, South Korea, is the same as throwing away your life as a human being, so treating you like people would be wrong and giving you even half a bowl of corn would be wasteful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">They were sent to the Ministry of State Security and quickly sentenced to political prison camps following an order from Pyongyang to &#8220;deal with the incident quickly.&#8221; Word of the unusually fast decision spread, and public sentiment turned sour as a result, the source said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">&#8220;One state security agent who handled a district where the arrested people lived said that nowadays, if you get caught trying to go to South Korea, you immediately get removed from society, with investigations lasting less than a month, because the longer the investigations drag on, the more rumors about the attempted sea-borne defections spread, which could give people ideas,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The state security agents handling the attempted defection also ordered the heads of neighborhood watch units to &#8220;closely monitor the movements of neighbors the arrestees were close to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"><em>Property seized, families displaced<\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">According to the source, the wooden boat they tried to defect in was immediately seized by state security authorities and registered as a &#8220;state maritime asset.&#8221; The maritime patrol division of the provincial state security authority plans to use the boat for educational and propaganda purposes\u2014specifically as &#8220;lesson material for reactionary would-be defectors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The arrestees had their homes and property confiscated, with the family&#8217;s house immediately given to a disabled veteran and his wife in Hwadae county. The urban management division of the provincial people&#8217;s committee is now fixing up the house, and the couple has been told they should move in early June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">A cousin of one of the arrested people broke a window and secretly entered the home to retrieve something their relative had used, but was arrested by county police after a neighbor reported him. 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