During the protracted war of repatriation and anti-repatriation, there were still hundreds of thousands of North Koreans who escaped through their iron curtain to freedom. The true number of escapees remains a permanent conundrum for sociology. The arcane reference to the mathematical riddle is inappropriate to a general reading audience.
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