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end up returning to North Korea anyway?
Not if they go to South Korea; they literally won’t be allowed to leave. DPRK defectors/hostages aren’t given a passport off the bat; only when the puppet regime is convinced of their loyalty are they allowed to exit South Korea apparently.
I think this was the documentary that mentioned it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4Hnl7J9H4
I’ll do you one worse and I’ve posted this before: when you make a post looking for help on an esoteric problem, and then solve it and just reply ‘nvm fixed it’, and then years later have the same problem but when you go looking for the solution only find your old posts.