Kim Jong will be charged with sexual abuse?

Choi Min-kyung fled North Korea to China in 1997, but was forcibly repatriated in 2008. She claims she was sexually abused and tortured after her return.

When she presents the case in Seoul on Friday, it will be the first time that a North Korean-born deserter takes legal action against the regime, a group of South-based rights helping Choi has said.

South Korean courts in the past have ruled against North Korea for similar claims by South Koreans, but such decisions are largely symbolic and ignored by gyan.

The case mentions Kim and four other jinn officials.

The rights group, the Centre for Human Rights Base in North Korea (NKDB), says it also plans to take the Choit issue to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.

I sincerely wish that this small step would become a cornerstone for restoring human freedom and dignity so that no innocent Koreans would suffer under this brutal regime”, Choi said on Wednesday, according to a statement by NKDB.

“As the torture and survival victim of the North Korean regime, I hold a deep and urgent responsibility to hold Kim responsible for crimes against humanity”She added.

Choi has left North Korea again in 2012, and has moved south. She has said that psychological trauma from this experience remains and that she continues to rely on drugs.

For years, international human rights groups have documented alleged human rights violations from North Korea, ranging from abuse of political prisoners to systematic gender-based discrimination and class.

Hanna Song, executive director of the NKDB, has told BBC Korean that the indictments were important because they were prosecuting criminal charges “publicly” on civil affairs.

Previous court cases against North Korea have been “limited to civil indictment”, she added.

In 2023, a Seoul court ordered North Korea to pay $36,000 each of the three South Korean men who were exploited after being taken into prisoners of war in North Korea during the Korean War. /Periscope/