North Korean media targeted Jang Jin-sung, the high-profile defector and author of the book Dear Leader, in an article published on the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday.

The article, which denounces defectors broadly, singles out Jang and his online news site New Focus, and levels a series of unsubstantiated claims against him.

“All ‘defectors from the north’ are betes noires bereft of elementary dignity as human beings as they serve the U.S. and the south Korean puppet authorities in their anti-DPRK smear campaigns for a petty amount of money paid by them,” the article says.

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