I’m much less up-to-date here, and I don’t know this particular organization (afaik, there are several that help escapees), but the ones I looked into back in the day weren’t able to help people escape from NK but instead helped them flee from China to South Korea. The northern border is the one that most escapees manage/d to cross, but China tries to catch them and returns them to NK if they can’t escape from China before that happens.
Ok, if this is the case, then the number of people escaping from NK in the first place could be a limiting factor we’d run into quickly, if we don’t expect to influence this number much, but if we are increasing this number (people finding out about successful escapes), this may increase the risk of punishments (maybe not overall, though).
If escapees leave families behind, the families often claim that the person has died.
They might stop buying this if too many people are escaping and there’s no evidence of the person having died. I’d guess we shouldn’t expect due process from North Korea.
Yeah, I’m thinking about this at the current margin where deaths are probably some three orders of magnitude more than escapes, but those are problems that we’d run into if we were to scale this intervention a lot.
Ok, if this is the case, then the number of people escaping from NK in the first place could be a limiting factor we’d run into quickly, if we don’t expect to influence this number much, but if we are increasing this number (people finding out about successful escapes), this may increase the risk of punishments (maybe not overall, though).
They might stop buying this if too many people are escaping and there’s no evidence of the person having died. I’d guess we shouldn’t expect due process from North Korea.
Yeah, I’m thinking about this at the current margin where deaths are probably some three orders of magnitude more than escapes, but those are problems that we’d run into if we were to scale this intervention a lot.