Shaquille James is graduate of Georgetown University and Co-Founder of the North Korea Network.
Links to the military — and the nuclear program — may explain the region's low number of escapees
75% of all escapees in the South are from just two provinces
A recent tit-for-tat of editorials in Beijing and Pyongyang is not a new phenomenon
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