⁍ The woman was 26 when she defected in 2014, disillusioned with her job at a military institute.

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⁍ It was her link to the institute, as well as the fact her brother still worked there, that apparently made her an attractive asset for South Korean agents.

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⁍ Seong, a Defence Intelligence Command (DIC) lieutenant colonel, and Kim, a master sergeant, this month on charges of sexually assaulting and raping the woman.

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– A North Korean defector says she thought she’d found a “father-daughter” relationship with a South Korean intelligence officer—until she was raped by him and a colleague, Reuters reports. The woman, identified only by her surname Lee, says she was 26 when she defected in 2014 and met Dr. Seong, a lieutenant colonel with the Defense Intelligence Command. Seong told her he worked for the government and they developed a “father-daughter” relationship. The woman says Seong and a colleague, Kim, began raping her when she tried to get information about her brother, who’d been detained by North Korean secret police. The abuse allegedly lasted nearly a year and a half. The woman says military prosecutors victimized her during the investigation, suggesting the sex was consensual and pressing her to drop the complaint. Her lawyer, Jeon Su-mi, described her decision to file a complaint as her #MeToo moment. But the woman says military prosecutors victimized her during the long investigation, suggesting the sex was consensual and pressing her to drop the complaint. She says she sought therapy. Prosecutor Lee says his colleagues never intended to undermine her rights, though he acknowledged they should have been more sensitive. “The women can’t say ‘no’ because to them, these people have absolute power, like God.'”