Escaping the Prison Camps

• Escaping Korea through the North/South divide is pretty much impossible. It is armed with North Korean soldiers and the wide area of No-mans land makes picking escapees off easy. They have a shoot to kill policy.
• Instead most people go through China and round, before coming back to Korea, this time entering through the South. South Korea is nearly always the destination of escapees.
• Because of the use of China as an escape route, a network, known as the Chinese Network, was formed. They arm the people attempting to escape with some money for a ticket, a switch blade (to kill themselves, not for defence) and some ground up chilies, to throw at attackers faces.
• Often people do not make it, and are either sent back, or become victims of human trafficking. They become sex slaves or are sold as wives to rural living Chinese men. They cannot find a legal job or even be seen due to a lack of documents.
• The woman are not always overly upset as they consider forced marriage a lesser of the two evils.
• Kids born to these women often end up in limbo when the North Korean Guards come back and take away the mothers. They have no paper work and therefore, officially, do not exist. Neither China or North Korea will accept responsibility for them, even their fathers sometimes abandon them.