Senior North Korean military officer defects to South

We are all trying to get out. The fat little madman is going to cause genocide among our people. We are already starving, and now he is trying his best to make the US rain nuclear weapons upon our heads.

We have no weapons that work. Our missiles keep landing in the sea, but that is not where we have pointed them. And we have tried over 40 nuclear tests. An overwhelming majority fail totally.

We are lost.

A very sad situation indeed. It would be great to see a Korea united and at peace. The logistics behind making that happen are about as complicated as it gets however.

Think of German reunification and multiply that degree of difficulty by 10.

Wow, a full bird Colonel defects. What a blow to Fat bow & Pyongyang. Little by little, NK is becoming more of a failed state.

Pyongyang usually accuses Seoul of enticing North Korean citizens to defect, something Seoul denies.

Just by EXISTING, South Korea is a bit of an enticement. I'm sure S.K. does their own form of "Radio-Free Korea" to tout their benefits, too. I'm sure N.K. does it's best to jam the signal, but that in itself would serve as an enticement to defect. Anyone with half a brain would surmise that if N.K. was such a utopia, why would the government need to block outside transmissions?

Given his position he probably caught wind that he was in line for a little anti- aircraft practice and decided to take a powder.

I'd like to see the S.K. to N.K. defection numbers too. Certainly there are people who prefer a dictator?

Probably figured he was next on the list....