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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There are around 100,000 north koreans working abroad. It's not so unreasonable of a question as you'd think

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Looks like it's mostly Russia and China, with unconfirmed estimates for other countries. This is in violation of UN sanctions, so it's highly unlikely that you'd meet a N. Korean in countries that respect UN sanctions.

South Korea, on the other hand, numbers in the millions. So if you live outside of Russia and China, there are millions of S. Koreans vs probably a few thousand N. Koreans. It's not even close.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And if you do meet a North Korean couple in small-town America, they probably won't mention it! (Un's uncle and aunt fled there from Switzerland)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Plus about 50,000 have managed to defect over the past 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

150k is about 0.000183% of the world population

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok, that's more than twice the population of Wyoming's capital. If I don't ignore that Wyomingites exists then there's no reason to ignore that North Koreans exist outside of North Korea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I never assume that someone is from Wyoming's capital either.