"Back in the North, first-time escapees are mostly...

"Back in the North, first-time escapees are mostly set free; but repeaters are banished, often with their entire families, to Soviet-style concentration camps. Those who come into contact with missionary workers from the South are executed, to prevent them from sowing the seeds of revisionism," stated Seoul-based journalist and commentator, Shim Jae Hoon, in an editorial.