Why North Korea is the Hardest Country to Escape?

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I watched an interview with a North Korean defector. According to her, she paid the broker 10m won (not sure if it was NK won or SK won). She must swam through the river bordering NK and CN and traveled through 3 cities in China (Yanbian, Qingdao and Kunming) to Mekong River and then sailed a small wooden boat down the river together with roughly 10 other NK defectors for 2 days to Thailand. As soon as they arrived Thailand, they were told to look for a police station and turned themselves in. She and her group managed to find a small police station and were confined there starved for many hours before moved to a bigger police station with a bigger jail. They were given some food and confined there for a week before moved to NK refugee camp and lived there for almost a month with over 100 other NK defectors before getting SK passport and flying to Seoul.

She was told by her parents who left NK before her that Thailand route was the safest and also introduced to the broker by them.

A NK refugee had to stay in the camp in Thailand for roughly 1 - 2 months before sent to SK. She said the camp was very cramped and had many lizards but nothing was particularly good or bad about it beside those.

TH and SK have had a treaty that NK citizens will be deemed SK citizens thus, NK refugees would be treated as SK illegal immigrants and will be reported to SK's embassy. Some NK refugees were arrested in Chiangrai of Thailand yearly.