The defector who returned to N Korea ‘had a difficult life’ in Seoul | Stories

An official says the man who crossed over to North Korea last week was a cripple who struggled with his new life in the south.

The person who crossing The South Korean border with the strongest fortifications in North Korea last week was a North African activist who struggled with his new life, according to officials and media reports.

Tuesday’s incident sparked a new controversy in South Korea over the treatment of these disabled people in the country and asked if they could receive adequate care after a dangerous trip from the region. poor, strictly controlled in the north to the rich, Democrats in the South.

A South Korean soldier told Reuters news agency that the repatriate was a man in his 30’s who crossed the country last year.

He claimed to be living in poverty while working on land management in Seoul, South Korea.

“I would say they are known to be low-income, low-income people,” the official said, declining to divulge details.

The NK News website also quoted a South Korean official as saying that the man “had a difficult life” in his new home.

He denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating “Similar, baseless allegations concerning intelligence have been made more than once.

The South Korean military, accused of crossing the border, has conducted an investigation into how a North Korean man evaded security guards even though he was caught by surveillance cameras before crossing the border.

North Korean authorities have not commented on the matter, and state journalists have not commented.

South Korea’s Yonhap newspaper reported that police in northern Seoul’s Noon region who provided extra protection and care to the man complained in June that he could return to the north.

But it said nothing happened due to lack of real evidence.

Police declined to comment.

A senior official at Seoul’s Unification Ministry who oversees border issues said on Tuesday that the returnees had received government assistance in personal security, housing, medical care and employment.

The man had little contact with his neighbors, and was seen losing his belongings one day before crossing the border, Yonhap said.

“She was taking out mattresses and bedding from the trash that morning, and it was strange because everything was new,” a neighbor was quoted as saying by Yonhap. “I decided to ask him for it, but I didn’t, because we didn’t say hello” to each other.

As of September, about 33,800 North Koreans had relocated to South Korea, embarking on a long, arduous journey – often through China – in search of a new life as they fled poverty and oppression.

As of 2012, only 30 disabled people are guaranteed to return to the North, according to the Ministry of Unity.

But insurgents and freedom fighters say there could be more anonymous cases among those struggling to adapt to southern life.

About 56 percent of those enrolled in the low-income group, according to a statement issued by the ministry to Ji Seong-ho. About 25 percent of the population are under the jurisdiction of national grants, more than five times the population.

In a survey released last month by the Database Center for North Korea Human Rights and NK Social Research in Seoul, nearly 18 percent of the 407 respondents said they were ready to return to the north, most of them complaining.

“There are a number of difficult issues including the longing for families left in the north, as well as the psychological and economic challenges that start with stabilization,” said Unity’s chief of staff, pledging to review the plan and direct assistance to those left.