It's been on my "front page" for days as well. I'm a Reddit migrant so maybe that's what's going on?
Damn, almost makes me want to move to north korea just to defect to south korea, that's good money.
Unfortunately once you defect, you're effectively held hostage by south korean intelligence (NIS) and can never leave.
Fuck that, I'm starting my own place then, called middle korea, and everyone is welcome, fuck.
Or you try to do some lumberjacking
Unless you are an excellent bootlicker like Yeonmi Park who can even surprise liberal media with her lies
I think this is the article in case anyone to read it: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/05/asia/south-korea-reward-defectors/
The title seems to have changed but the date is correct.
That's a CNN link. The original is BBC. If it's a wire story it could easily be the same text though.