Additional North Korean Restaurant Workers Defect to South Korea
This is the second group of overseas North Korean restaurant workers to defect to South Korea in the past two months. I have to wonder if ROK intelligence is focusing hard on getting North Korean restaurant workers to defect in an effort to close the restaurants and dry up a source of foreign currency for the Kim regime?:
Up to three North Korean restaurant staff have recently escaped their workplace in China for possible defection to South Korea, a source familiar with inter-Korean affairs said Monday.
The North Koreans are currently staying in a third country in Southeast Asia after running away from a North Korea-run restaurant located at the northwestern Chinese city of Xian, according to the source. [Yonhap]
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Never been to Norkistan; but I already like the restaurants in South Korea better. There can be no North Korean version of the following Reagan joke:
An American and a Russian are talking about their countries.
The American starts to brag; “In my country, I can walk into the Oval Office, slam my fist on the president’s desk, and say “Mr. President, I don’t like the way you’re running this country!”
The Russian appears unimpressed and says “We can do that in my country.”
The American says “Really?
“Yes.” says the Russian. “I can walk right into the Kremlin, slam my fist on Gorbachev’s desk and say “I don’t like the way President Reagan is running his country.”
I wonder if these three waitresses are actually North Korean Operatives, sent to “defect,” then convince the 13 others to return? One way or another…
I mean, this is a country that kidnapped a director to make a crappy knock-off of Godzilla. The only question is: “Is this really crazy enough to work?” 😛