Eleven North Koreans Vote Against Kim Jong Il

… by climbing into a boat on North Korea’s east coast and sailing to the South. Two of them are children. South Korean authorities are questioning them now. (Link is in Korean.)

Hat tip to Mrs. Stanton.

Update: Here’s the boat they went south in:

Jesus wept. So they obviously came from just north of the DMZ, then?

This post is dedicated to every idiot who ever took a guided tour of Pyongyang and came back talking about how “normal” it was, or how exaggerated our differences are. If you ever wonder how much of a hell hole the real North Korea must be for ordinary proles, just imagine how desperate you’d have to be to put your kids into a boat like this.

More here, this time en ingles.