It would appear that tensions between the North and the South (Korean states) have increased in the last few days, and now, after the closing of a joint labor complex from the border town of Kaesong over a month ago, a group of 175 workers from the South left the northern state with their cars way overburdened with bags.
The group fled because, as The Daily Mail reports, “grave measures” would have been taken in order to quell the dispute. The complex had been established in 2004, and at the beginning of April, all 53,000 South Korean workers were withdrawn, after managers and supply trucks were not permitted to access the site.
The first of the last of the workers to go home, 126 people in total, left on Saturday, while the roughly 50 remaining were due to cross today. Their cars were severely overburdened with luggage, and some used tape to actually stick their bags onto the body of their vehicles, as the room inside had been quickly used up. Windscreens and windows were covered up, and many rear bumpers were scraped on tarmac that day…
It is sad to see that in the year 2013, when we think we’re so advanced and evolved, people are still forced to run from country to country, in fear and desperation. But then again what do you do when a state ruled incoherently, childishly and frankly, quite barbarically, is also the place where the words “nuclear” and “final and decisive” action are thrown liberally around, while the possible mass murder of thousands is seen as an acceptable solution to a few ideological differences?
By Andrei Nedelea
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