People Ask A Grandfather Who Escaped North Korea What His Life Was Like And He Delivers

Yeah, in a fight you'll be killed instantly. Living under a dictatorship is also death .. but it lasts for decades ....

Yeah, people are overestimating power. It has it's advantages, but the expectations and retrictions also coming with it, are bringing the scale in the negative field. Nothing can beat freedom. The real one. When you have no power as everyone is thinkig about, but still the power to do what you want in and with your life. That's freedom, and so many don't realize, but that's the real power. Sure, it helps a lot, if you were born, or are living in one of the social-democracies of Europe.

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When you are a child or a relative young man, you'll have beloved memories even in the middle of Hell.

Like Romania between 1965-1989 under the Ceausescu - regime.

It's a military dictatorship - any dissent , even the suspicion of dissent, is punished with arrest, t*****e and imprisonment in concentration camps. Those who insist they wouldn't accept it have never been in that position. Everyone thinks "Oh I'd be different" coz we've all seen movies - but in real life it's not a movie, people are terrified for their children and families.

Yeah, knowing history, helps a lot. Eastern Europe was living in this nightmare, what is continuing in North Korea. And no one bat an eye. Max. for East-Germany. Generations were destroyed and affected in those countries.

On the other hand... Eat The Rich.

The south korean gouvernment considers people from north korea as korean. As soon as they are in it is highly unlikely the will send them back.

Now our current lackey wants to side with them. (The NKs)

Da mn.

He is d**n freaking right!

Freaking sure! What kind of delulu question is this? No one can be so naive not to comprehend, what a dictatorship is. At least theoretically, the concept of a dictatorship explained in Oxford dictionary.

Sad to hear, wish him well. But anyway, after a given age, it's better to not give a flying fck about daily actual.politics of your country. Sure, being informed, going to vote and so on, is very important. But giving notice for every little "cat-fight" happening daily in a country's politics, will give anyone PTSD.

Oh yeah, Trianon!

So, their life s.ucked. Speaking from eastern-european communist-regime experience.

From my country fleeing to a not so fcked up, but also communist country, the way was through maze-fields. We were living for a few years in a small village right at the border. So close, that we could see the lights from the other village in the bordering country. Massive police and army controll was present in the village, because like with a few minutes walk, you could easily end up in the other country. The locals were known by the police/army guys. However, in summer-autumn time were coming seasonial-workers to harvest. So, could my cousin and his friend sneak through the border, My parents took a huge risk helping them.

Yum!

This question is so pure naive ... There is no wealth, what can you assure you a life in a dictatorship. And I mean a LIFE, that you'll be alive the next day too. If you are not part of the regime, and if any member of the regime considers you a threat, or just wants your wealth, the next day you are inprisoned,,,, and more day, and you are executed. It happened and it happens.

Since op wasn't sure, the answer is yes, with caveats. During the 60s and 70s, the DPRK (North Korea) outpaced the ROK (South) in most economic sectors, was more industrialized, had better and more infrastructural capacity, and the quality of life was okay, if not good. This was only really possible due to Kim Il Sung's outstanding ability to play the Soviet Union and China off of one another for economic investments and subsidies tho, and once communism fell, the North's economy collapsed relatively quickly. This was compounded by some truly inane economic policy changes, the North's emergence as a pariah state nobody would trade with, and the multiple famines. Meantime, the South struggled under multiple military dictatorships, assassinations, and cronyism, among other less savory political forces until the (economic/cultural) Miracle on the Han during the late 80s and 90s.

Hey!!! USA!!!! did you just read it? And no, it's not the commie-BS, what your government fed you in Cold War-times. Is the ever living shít, what you are starting to experience, There is no other former communist country in Eastern Europe, what is closer to a communist-style dictatorship as USA is today. But, maybe, it"'s your time guys to experience it ... Maybe you'll need a second civil war.

OMG, really?? A boot, really? Are you even reading his other answers. Flee if the communists that are trying to take over in the US actually make some serious inroads (which they won't). SMH

Living in a dictatorship not being part of the ruling regime, means, you have to have your updated exit-plan. Sometimes wizhout any massive amount of money to support you.