North Korean defectors 'promised apartments and jobs if they return'

You bet. just come on home and we'll insure that living in a utopian paradise is our ultamite goal.   What they're really saying is yea come back to our socialist playground  that jail cell and torture regemine is waiting for you and your entire extended family.  You'll live for how long who knows, but living that prsion alive isn't an option.

Sources inside the country say many are skeptical about the regime's offer, and that the jobs may be little more than re-education through labour. Daily NK reports

"Even though you betrayed the Motherland, your hometown, your parents, brothers and sisters, were you to return to the Motherland then not only would you be forgiven; you would also be provided with an apartment and a job to encourage you to work hard. These are the wishes of our General," the source, from North Hamkyung province, quoted the lecturer as saying.

If escaping famine and poverty for a better life in the South is a betrayal of the motherland so be.

Some people who have returned from South Korea to Hyesan in Yangkang and Yeonsa County in North Hamkyung have reportedly been given apartments. However, they have also reportedly been allocated work in mines and on farms, causing local people to suggest that they are actually being “revolutionised”.

Some people who have returned from South Korea have reportedly been allocated work in mines and on farms, causing local people to suggest that they are actually being 'revolutionised'

The term “revolutionised” means that since they are deemed to have acted against the policies, orders, and line of the ruling Party, they are in need of re-education through hard labour and additional ideological indoctrination.