defectors

It could be that when you don't catch all defectors in such a system the remaining defectors reduce your ability to catch future defectors.

Among people who believe punishing defectors to produce fair outcomes is more important than producing the best average outcome.

Insider trading is a crime because it's valuable for the executive class to punish early defectors.

It doesn't make NK defectors particularly hard to believe, and especially doesn't cast doubt on the overall picture of oppression.

When you play with the same people over and over again, then defectors can be punished.

They tend towards the unrealistic and assume party control over a majority of seats without defectors.

Certainly you can imagine the value of creating doubt about all NK defectors.

So they'd have blackmail material to use against potential leakers or defectors.

Automated participants can identify price changes more quickly, allowing defectors who lower prices at the expense of the group to be sifted out earlier.

I was born in a country that has a track record of concentration camps and shooting defectors to the west.

It's surprising how many comments are casting doubt on the story and on the stories of all NK defectors, and all using the same arguments.

Probably because past defectors have eventually admitted to fabricating stories.

But this does: "On 6 September 1960, two NSA defectors held a press conference and revealed the worldwide scope of NSA's activities:" "'We know from working at NSA [that] the United States reads the secret communications of more than forty nations, including its own allies...