North Korea said Wednesday it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announcing an expected constitutional revision to formally designate South Korea its principal enemy and codify new national borders.
While the moves were likely a pressure tactic, it’s unclear how they will affect ties with South Korea since cross-border travel and exchanges have been halted for years.
North Korea’s military said it will “completely cut off roads and railways” linked to South Korea and “fortify the relevant areas of our side with strong defense structures,” according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
If you did the slightest bit of reading about this topic, you’d understand this statement is patently false.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001109662.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:West_German_defectors_to_East_Germany
The wall was built in 1961
Mate, why are you selecting a timespan* like that? The Russian occupation started 1945, that’s when most fled. Something like 15 million fled to the West. Generally most wanted to get away from the Russians. A list of 16(!) defectors is rather irrelevant in this context.
*Huh, I wonder why:
Why would fascists defect to East Germany if West Germany was fascist? I don’t see a single fascist on that list of defectors, just socialists and communists