They risk their lives on the roofs of the trains; they may be shaken off or crushed inside tunnels. Do you suppose that those people paid to get train tickets or to carry travel permit cards?
One cannot expect to see such illegal free riders carrying permits or certificates. Of course, not everybody gets the chance to move about freely. There are very few trains. Further, I have heard that it now takes five days from Chunjin to Pyongyang, while it used to take only three days. Likewise, it now takes three days from Chunjin to HangHum on the east coast, while it used to take less than one day. The problem is due to the shortage of electric power, which most seriously affects the operation of electric locomotives. Their great efforts to expedite electrification in the 1960s are now working against them. It would be illogical to assume that many people make it as far as the border, because the borders are heavily guarded. The children from North Korea told us that few people make it to the borders; instead, they go to the area neighboring the train station in an up-country town (HamHung, for example) and try to board the trains, but that they die in ditches near the train stat
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