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U.S. soldier facing disciplinary action flees into North Korea (news.yahoo.com)

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[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think he knew that and still made the choice. There's a handful of US defectors in the DPRK because they were ideologically closer to communism than imperialism, so maybe he'll fare as well as he hopes.

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt this was ideological. He would have tried this earlier in his time in the military and likely wouldn’t have joined the military at all I would imagine

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ideology changes over time. Being in the military is often a catalyst for big changes to ideology.