Three North Korean women who worked at a state-run restaurant in China have arrived in South Korea after defecting, authorities in Seoul said Wednesday. Photo courtesy of prezi.com It was the second such group defection announced this year, after 13 female employees of another Pyongyang-operated restaurant in China arrived in Seoul in April. The South Korean Unification Ministry confirmed the arrival of the three, but declined to give any details of how they managed to get to Seoul. According to unidentified government sources cited by the Yonhap news agency, they arrived via Thailand, after running away from their restaurant in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi. Their case will fuel tensions with North Korea which insists the previous group of 13 women had been tricked into defecting and were being held in Seoul against their will. Reports of the latest defection first emerged in late May, several weeks after the [...]
