North Korea Demands Meeting With Defector Restaurant Workers

North Korea is demanding that a meeting be set up between a dozen recent defectors it claims were abducted by South Korea and their parents, or the south will face “strong retaliatory action.” The twelve women worked in a North Korean restaurant in China before they arrived in the South earlier this month. South Korean leaders say the women came of their own free will, while the North claims the women were essentially kidnapped by spies who tricked them into defecting. “The recent case...

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