According to Seoul’s army, a little boat carrying suspected dissenters from North Korea was stopped after entering South Korean waters.
The Northern Limit Line, which separates the two Koreas’ sea borders, was where it was found.
The four passengers were” presumed to include defected” from the isolated country, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Since Kim Jong Un became the president of North Korea in 2011, resignations have become more and more challenging.
Since the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, border controls have also been tightened even more.
The four North Koreans on table the wooden ship were not given any additional information by South Korean officials.
Nine North Koreans were rescued by the beach guard in May after crossing the northern sea border in a fishing boat.
To find out their reasons for leaving the North, would-be dissenters are usually detained and interrogated for up to a fortnight.
Seoul claimed earlier this month that Beijing forcefully repatriated” a sizable amount” of dissenters from North Korea. According to human rights organizations, 600 North Koreans have been exiled and now face prison, sexual assault, or even suicide.
China does not accept dissenters from North Korea as immigrants. Despite pleas from foreign institutions and human rights organizations to change its position, it insists that they are” financial workers” and has a plan of sending them back.
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