{"id":72833,"date":"2025-07-11T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/11\/north-korea-defector-to-sue-kim-jong-un"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:58:52","slug":"north-korean-defector-to-sue-kim-jong-un-alleging-torture-and-sexual-violence-in-regimes-detention-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72833","title":{"rendered":"North Korean defector to sue Kim Jong-un alleging torture and sexual violence in regime\u2019s detention facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choi Min-kyung is seeking damages from the state represented by its leader and has also submitted a criminal complaint alleging crimes against humanity<\/p>\n<p>A North Korean defector has filed a lawsuit against Kim Jong-un in a South Korean court, alleging torture and sexual violence in the regime\u2019s detention facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Choi Min-kyung, 53, is seeking 50m won (US$37,000) in damages from the North Korean state represented by its leader, Kim Jong-un, and six other officials. She also submitted a criminal complaint asking prosecutors to investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/19\/north-korea-detainees-subjected-to-ritual-torture-and-sexual-assault-rights-group\">crimes against humanity<\/a> charges against Kim and five other officials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/11\/north-korea-defector-to-sue-kim-jong-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choi Min-kyung is seeking damages from the state represented by its leader and has also submitted a criminal complaint alleging crimes against humanityA North Korean defector has filed a lawsuit against Kim Jong-un in a South Korean court, alleging tor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,421,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72845,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72833\/revisions\/72845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}