In China, lots of police are after you, and I couldn't speak a word of Chinese when I was there. When you see a police car passing by in China.... You see a lot of police going house to house looking for North Korean defectors. People are encouraged to report defectors to the police. They receive 5,000 yuan for reporting defectors, so you really can't think about going to the police for help. You hide in fear when you see police cars passing by. You just live in hiding.
We see the police in China, and when they capture one defector they abuse us verbally and tell us we just cause them a lot more work and we are just worthless. It's their job to catch another defector and send the defector back to North Korea. It makes money for them too, so they would never help North Korean defectors. They would just try to capture us and send us back.