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    6 months ago

    Why don’t we have a law for North Korea like the Cuban Adjustment Act that allows anyone who makes it out of the country to quickly become a permanent resident, without regard for how they got out of their country. The situation seems fairly similar, where encouraging more defectors makes the target country look bad, and it can deprive them of workers.

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        6 months ago

        I suppose the US, but it would probably have to involve us paying for moving them to the US from South Korea. Otherwise South Korea could have such a program so that they can become residents with actual rights (or maybe they already do).

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      6 months ago

      Because South Koreans don’t have ambitions of building up a large militant ex-pat community to try a Bay of Pigs on Pyongyang.