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【2022-02-09】
@whigzhou: After reading some information on defecting from the North, I found two interesting points: 1) There used to be a southern route in the escape route. I only knew about the Ulaanbaatar route before, and the proportion of people who took the southern route was higher. 2) Before 2002, the majority of fugitives were men, and since then the proportion of women has continued to rise, reaching 3-5 times that of men.
For the second point, one explanation is that in North Korea, women’s occupations are less within the system. This difference is similar to the difference between state-owned enterprise workers and farmers in the planned era, which means:
1) Women’s activities and whereabouts are less subject to discipline within the system. For example, if an employee within the system fails to show up at work for a few days, suspicion will be aroused, which will trigger a search operation, and women are more likely to be free from such strong constraints. many,
2) Because occupations are less institutionalized (for example, the gray economy in North Korea is more occupied by women), their skills and experience are also more likely to be marketable in an unplanned economy, which will help them in To make a living on the run,
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