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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A jet ski rider who has been detained since he washed up on South Korea’s coast is believed to be a Chinese dissident who feared for his safety and fled by crossing hundreds of miles of sea, trailing barrels of fuel behind him.

The coast guard in the western South Korean port city of Incheon said in a statement Sunday that a Chinese man in his 30s tried to illegally enter the country Aug. 16 by riding a jet ski from the Shandong area of China, an eastern province around 200 miles away across the Yellow Sea.

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[-] Wookie@artemis.camp 23 points 10 months ago

Are there many people from the US seeking asylum in other countries or migrating at high numbers?

[-] remer@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago
[-] wahming@monyet.cc 7 points 10 months ago

Less in fear for his life, and more in fear of jail time. Which he shouldn't have had to fear, don't get me wrong. But there's still a big difference in scale between fleeing jail and fleeing death.

[-] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I too would flee in either case. I think being robbed of your freedoms and death are pretty similar. Though I agree with jcit.

[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

There was Snowden , alghtough other than that there wasnt that many cases.

[-] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

There will be soon. The entire west is quickly becoming uninhabitable.

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