Hosts Sug Shin and Dan Chung discuss the boats that have washed up on the shores of Japan. Nobody knows exactly why. Since the year 2011, when 57 North Korean ships drifted to Japan. There were 156 in 2019. Some boats were in tact. Some were completely destroyed. And some had corpses on them, earning them the moniker "ghost ships." Sug and Dan speculate the possible reasons why this might be happening. The hosts discuss the difficulties refugees face in making a maritime escape from North Korea and explore the advantages and disadvantages of escaping by land or by water. Crossing Borders' Giving Tuesday Campaign: https://cbgivingtuesday2022.funraise.org/Link to the Hakai Magazine Article: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-north-korea-built-a-fleet-of-ghost-ships/Support the show

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