South Korean Baby Born In North Korea Returns
A South Korean woman who went into labor and gave birth while in North Korea has returned to South Korea:
The first South Korean baby born in the North came to the South on Tuesday, but her mother said her home will always be Pyongyang.
Hwang Seon was visiting the North to see a festival when she went into labor on Oct. 10, earlier than scheduled. She was the first woman from the South to give birth in the communist state known formally as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“I’m grateful that Pyongyang is her hometown because that was made possible by how much the relationship between the South and the North has improved,” Hwang told reporters after crossing the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone border to the South.
Now why would someone who is so close to giving child birth, travel to North Korea to begin with? Well this kind of explains it:
“I hope that the baby’s father, who is wanted under the National Security Law, will come home soon so that we can go to Pyongyang together on the baby’s first birthday,” Hwang said.
She was referring to a key anti-communism law in the South that many younger South Koreans consider anachronistic. Hwang did not elaborate what charges her husband was wanted for under the wide-ranging law, nor where he was.
The baby’s nationality is South Korean, but Hwang said she hoped the girl would soon be able to say she was just from Korea.
Pyongyang is so great why doesn’t she, her husband, and child just stay up there? The fact of the matter is that this was all a well timed propaganda stunt by the North Koreans. I seriously doubt that she just happened to go into labor in North Korea like the article claims. This was all planned from the beginning. The fact that her husband is wanted under the National Security Law only confirms this.
Score one for the North Korean propaganda machine as they just got a world wide Yahoo News article published because of this little scheme that conveyed how great North Korea really is. Now if only some of these people that proclaim how great the North is would only move there themselves.
