North Korean man makes rare direct land crossing to South – DW – 07/04/2025
www.dw.comA North Korean man has crossed the heavily fortified demilitarized zone to the South. The apparent defection is unusual because most people escape via China, not the heavily guarded border separating the two Koreas.
From Wikipedia:
Numerous testimonies of North Korean defectorsconfirm the practice of kin punishment (연좌제, yeonjwaje literally “association system”) in North Korea, under which three to eight generations of a political offender’s family can be summarily imprisoned or executed.
When we say 연좌제(yeonjwaje), it usually goes with the word “삼족”, which means “three families(generations)”. It usually means your parents and their siblings(and their kids and all their grandkids), your siblings and their children, and obviously, you and your children.
Damn - so to get to 8 you’re essentially just breeding them to execute them(?)
I think it’s just 3-4 in each direction, so if so something bad and you’re old, it would affect your grandkids, and if you’re young it would affect your grandparents
And all direct cousins and nephews if I’m reading this right
i see, thank you.