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In reply to the discussion: NKorean soldier defects to SKorea across border [View all]christx30
(6,241 posts)the leaders of North Korea have been getting away with since 1953. They torture and murder their citizens routinely. And there are people in that country that want to get out. You want to feel righteously angry at someone? Be angry at the psychotic NK government that made this guy feel that scared and desperate that he had to kill 2 people to get out.
I don't know you. But I'm guessing that you have never been in that kind of situation. I know I haven't. God help me, I hope I never will. I don't know what I would do in his place. Would you lie down and die? Would you allow yourself to be captured, tortured and killed? Would you accept living in North Korea? Would you be glad about it? I know I would kill to save my own life.
Just think of it like this: The situation in North Korea is not a natural phenomenon. It's not a drought. It's not a forest fire. It's the human beings that found themselves in power that decided to treat the less lucky people like garbage. Slaves. And the people have a right to escape that. Can we at least agree on that last point?