Some of the 12 North Korean restaurant workers who came to South Korea in 2016 were not aware that they were being brought to the ROK, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK said on Tuesday.

Speaking at a press conference in Seoul following an over-week-long visit to the South, Tomas Ojea Quintana said he had in recent days conducted interviews with some – but not all – of the women the ROK claimed voluntarily defected two years ago and found “shortcomings.”

“From the information I received from some of them, they were taken to the