North Korea’s state-run Uriminzokkiri outlet recently attacked two prominent defectors based in the U.S. and UK, as part of a series of videos released mid-October and late November. 

A total of seven well-known defectors were targeted, in two series of videos claiming the escapees have been living overseas under false identities. 

One U.S.-based defector, surname Jo, was accused of concealing her identity as a Korean living in China.

Jo, who holds U.S. citizenship, has been a prominent advocate for human rights in North Korea.

She most notably testified at a U.S. congressional hearing over China’s repatriation of escapees in 2012 and