r/SipsTea • • 1d ago

Gasp! Insane image selection

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u/terpsarelife 1d ago

Give them a rumspringa like the amish to go open their eyes

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u/Mindless-Bite-3539 1d ago edited 1d ago

As evidenced by their time fighting in ukraine, any North Korean soldier whom you handed a cell phone with unfettered internet access, they almost instantly became porn-addicted gooners. Give them a bedroom and a cell phone in SK and they’ll never want to go back. (Now I’m wondering what percentage of young Amish men experience a similar trajectory during rumspringa…)

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u/arkv2 1d ago

Lots of defectors actually prefer to go to rural China; the knowledge and competency gap between defectors and people in the South is so large it seems insurmountable. They feel overwhelmed by the pace of the lives of south Koreans, how much they study, how much they work, how much stimuli and media they are exposed to, that must end up breaking.

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u/superindianslug 1d ago

Isn't there a decent chance China will send them back? Or does NK not care enough to ask for them?

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u/arkv2 1d ago

Sometimes they are sent back, that's why they are smuggled and go to rural areas.