About the Author
Tae-il Shim
Tae-il Shim is a pseudonym for a North Korean defector writer. He left the DPRK in 2018, and now resides in South Korea.
Hello there, and welcome to Ask a North Korean: the feature where you email in with your questions and have them answered by our very own North Korean writers.
Today's question comes from Nanda in Indonesia, who asks what reasons North Koreans may have for choosing to defect.