South Korea increased payments to defectors from North Korea
The South Korean authorities for the first time in 20 years has decided to increase four times the benefits to the citizens of the DPRK who had fled the country.
The remuneration of the supposed defectors, who provided valuable information about the political system of North Korea. On it informs “Renhap”.
For useful information of North Korean escapees will now pay up to 1 billion won (about $860). Before the maximal payout was $ 250 thousand won
South Korea plans to pay increased remuneration to those North Koreans who cross the border with weapons and military equipment from aircraft and tanks to small arms.
The Ministry of unification of South Korea said that the North Koreans are afraid to leave the country because you don’t know how you can make a life in another state. The initiative of the South Korean government aims to partially solve this problem.
Seoul took the decision to increase the reward defectors amid the investigation of the death of Kim Jong-Nam, the brother of the leader of North Korea. Recall that the brother of the head of the DPRK, was killed at the airport of Kuala Lumpur on the morning of 14 February. According to the autopsy, the cause of his death was a severe paralysis caused by nerve substance.