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Problem:The case of the 12 women, all in their 20s or 30s, presents a thorny problem for President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, who held a summit meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, last month to discuss improving ties. Mr. Kim’s government has long demanded the women’s repatriation. But the South has always denied abducting North Koreans, saying that about 30,000 North Koreans who have arrived in the South since the 1990s were defectors. 
  
 The women were among tens of thousands of North Koreans working abroad who funnel badly needed foreign currency to their government. The North selects loyal and relatively affluent citizens to send abroad as workers, and the defection of the 12 women was a major coup for Park Geun-hye, who was South Korea’s president at the time and whose conservative government cited it as a sign of disillusionment with Mr. Kim among North Korean elites. 
  
 But many details of the defection remained a mystery and fueled suspicion, including how the restaurant workers managed to plot their escape despite being trained to spy on one another for signs of disloyalty. They also arrived in South Korea only two days after they fled their restaurant in the Chinese city of Ningbo, in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Other defectors usually took months to complete the trip to South Korea, often trekking through the jungles of Southeast Asia with the help of human traffickers. 
  
 Ms. Park’s government also took the highly unusual step of announcing their defection the day after their arrival. But it kept their whereabouts secret and blocked human rights lawyers from meeting with them. It also denied the North’s claim that the waitresses’ manager had conspired with the South Korean spy agency to take them to the South after telling them that they were being relocated to a restaurant in Southeast Asia. 
  
 But Mr. Heo says that was exactly what happened. Like other North Korean workers abroad, the women were trained to obey their manager, who held their passports. 
  
 “I just told them that we were moving to a new place,” he told JTBC. 
  
 Mr. Heo said he decided to spy for the National Intelligence Service in 2014 after Kim Jong-un executed his own uncle, Jang Song-thaek, on sedition and corruption charges. Mr. Heo said he became disillusioned with Mr. Kim after five of his former classmates were executed in a purge of officials close to Mr. Jang. 
  
 Mr. Heo said he met a South Korean agent in a motel in China, signed a letter of allegiance, and had his picture taken with a South Korean flag as proof that he would not betray the agency. ||||| SEOUL (Reuters) - Several North Korean waitresses who arrived in South Korea in 2016 in a group of 13 defectors have said they were coerced into leaving, and a South Korean ministry that handles ties with the North said on Friday it was trying to verify their account. 
  
 The defection of 12 waitresses and their manager from a North Korean restaurant in China was one of the biggest mass defection cases involving North Koreans in years. 
  
 South Korea said at the time they had defected out of admiration for South Korean society. North Korea denounced it as a “hideous” abduction of its workers and demanded them back. 
  
 Evidence that at least some of the 12 waitresses did not come freely, revealed in a television program aired on Thursday, comes at a sensitive time. 
  
 After a year of sharply rising tension and fears of war over North Korea’s defiant nuclear and missile tests, inter-Korean relations have improved dramatically this year. 
  
 The two Koreas held their first summit in years in late April. North Korea and the United States are due to hold their first ever summit in Singapore on June 12. 
  
 Four of the 12 waitresses from the Ryugyong Korean Restaurant in China told the South Korean television network JTBC they had been forced to give their written consent to defect inside the South Korean embassy in Malaysia after being threatened by their manager. 
  
 “If we didn’t sign our names, he threatened he would turn us over to the security police in North Korea for watching South Korean television dramas and I had no choice,” one of the women said. 
  
 “I wish I could take that decision back.” 
  
 North Korean defectors often cross China into Southeast Asia before trying to reach South Korea. 
  
 South Korea’s announcement of the defections at the time was unusual. Authorities usually keep such matters quiet. 
  
 Critics said the government was trying to win favor with voters in parliamentary elections that came days after the defections were announced. The government denied that. 
  
 None of the women was identified, and the television network blurred their faces. Reuters was unable to contact any of them. 
  
 They said they had been unaware of their final destination until they found themselves at the embassy in Malaysia. 
  
 The restaurant manager, Heo Gang-il, told the television station he had been working with South Korean intelligence agents and had threatened the women if they did not join him in defecting. 
  
 Heo said he had lied to the women about their destination, adding he was speaking out after the South’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) failed to keep a promise to give him a job and a medal. 
  
 The NIS declined to comment. 
  
 Baik Tae-hyun, a spokesman for South Korea’s unification ministry, which handles issues involving North Korea, told a briefing the account from the North Koreans had to be checked. 
  
 But he said the ministry had had difficulty reaching them as the NIS had handled their resettlement. 
  
 “We have tried to set up interviews with these defector waitresses,” said Baik in a regular media briefing. 
  
 “However, there was a limit as to how much we could assess their statuses as these people did not want meetings (with the ministry),” he said. |||||
Solution:
A famous North Korean defection may have actually been a kidnapping engineered by the South—news that comes at a slightly awkward moment for the two Koreas, the New York Times reports. A South Korean cable TV channel broke the news Thursday, saying the apparent defection of 12 waitresses and their manager from a restaurant in China in 2016 was not made by choice. "It was luring and kidnapping, and I know because I took the lead," says Heo Kang-il, the former manager. "I blackmailed them and told them to make a choice: 'If you return home, you die, and if you follow me, you live.' I am now remorseful for what I did." Three women appeared with him, their faces blurred, and confirmed his story. "I want to go home, because living like this is not the life I wanted," said one of the women. "I miss my parents." Like Heo, the women were among thousands of North Koreans who took foreign jobs to send money back to their government. Heo says South Korea's intelligence service then offered him big rewards to take the women South, but the rewards never came. And critics say the South only engineered the defections to trumpet them before parliamentary elections, Reuters reports. Now South Korea is in a tricky position after refusing North Korea's many demands to have the women repatriated. But for Heo, it seems to be revenge. "They had me believe that this was a big patriotic operation," he says. "But they used me and then shot me in the back."