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Police arrest pastor accused of molesting 8 North Korean defector children

South Korean police previously confirmed they are investigating man surnamed Chun who runs school for defector students
Ifang Bremer | Joon Ha Park August 23, 2023
Police arrest pastor accused of molesting 8 North Korean defector children
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Police officers from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency | Image: Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency

South Korean police on Tuesday arrested a pastor who is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting North Korean defector children, according to investigators.

Park Dae-gang, chief of Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Women and Juvenile Investigation Division, confirmed to NK News that the man surnamed Chun is in police custody, while declining to state the reasons for the arrest.

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Ifang Bremer

Ifang Bremer

Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.

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Joon Ha Park is an Editorial Intern at NK News and has previously written on issues related to the two Koreas at The Peninsula Report.

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