10 Reasons You Might Want to Leave North Korea

1. Life expectancy in the North is only 86 percent that of the South, 2013.
2. GDP per capita in the North is only 5 percent that of the South, 2008.
3. Infant mortality in the North is 679 percent that of the South, 2015.
4. Maternal mortality in the North is 322 percent that of the South, 2013.
5. Food consumption in the North was 63 percent that of the South, 2011.
6. Democracy in the South is comparable to Belgium, but non-existent in the North, 2014.
7. Environmental protection in the North lags behind that in the South.
8. Rule of law in the South is on par with Spain; in the North, with Afghanistan, 2014.
9. Internet access in the North is, well…[non-existence].
10. Last, but not least, the colonel's chance of being murdered was almost six times higher in the North than in the South, including on the orders of this psychopath: [Kim Jong-un].

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The article started with a N. Korean colonel defected to S. Korea for unknown reasons. Well, if I was placing a bet I would say the last reason sounds reasonable.