North Koreans escape from North Korea because of poverty and lack of money.

The reason why North Korean people flee from North Korea to South Korea.

A survey was conducted about the reason why North Korean escaped from North Korea to South Korea.

214 North Korean answered the survey.
37.9 percentage of respondents answered that they escaped from North Korea because of poverty in North Korea.
16.8 percentage of respondents escaped North Korea to earn money.\

Only 19.2 percentage of respondents said that they suffered from political persecution.