A prominent North Korean defector-author has won a defamation lawsuit against another defector who accused him of sexual crimes and a South Korean broadcaster that reported her story, court documents reviewed by NK News show.

The Supreme Court last month upheld a ruling that required the defector Seung Sol-hyang and her husband, as well as the broadcaster MBC and its reporter, to collectively pay $29,000 (40 million won) plus interest to the author Jang Jin-sung.

The court also ruled that the defendants must collectively pay $7,264 (10 million won) plus interest to an associate of Jang surnamed Jeon, whom Seung