N. Korean staff in overseas restaurant in mass defection to South

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Seoul (AFP) - Thirteen North Koreans working in a state-run restaurant outside the country have defected to South Korea, a government official in Seoul said Friday.

The South Korean government estimates that Pyongyang rakes in around $10 million every year from some 130 restaurants it operates -- with mostly North Korean staff -- in 12 countries, including neighbouring China.

Last month, while unveiling a series of unilateral sanctions on Pyongyang over its January nuclear test, Seoul had urged South Korean citizens overseas to boycott any such establishments, saying their profits funded the North's nuclear weapons programme.

The defectors, one male manager and a dozen women, arrived in the South on Thursday, Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee told reporters.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/n-korean-staff-overseas-restaurant-mass-defection-south-084750417.html

[jtuck004]

1. Their food is that bad? n/t

[davidpdx]

2. Good to hear

The number of refugees (which is really the term they should have used in the article) has decreased the past few years because of stronger security on the boarder of North Korea and China.

[Bad Dog]

3. The regime screwed up.

Usually the possible punishment of family members left behind acts as a deterrent.

[maxsolomon]

4. and their families will probably be punished.

hopefully china has had enough of this shit finally.

[Bad Dog]

6. I wouldn't hold your breath.

[FLPanhandle]

5. A North Korean restaurant?

What do they serve? Dishes made from tree bark and grass?

Isn't North Korean Food an oxymoron like Military Intelligence.