THe NK developer will think, wait, I'm making a fraction of what I'm actually earning, I will smuggle in a Starlink receiver and set up a bank account in China and work for myself. This is how Communist regimes end.
> They are often required to leave family members behind as collateral to prevent them from defecting while outside their home country.
In all seriousness though. Defectors from North Korea have been killed longer than you or I have been alive