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Court fines defector $6,700 for helping send money back to North Koreans

Defendant says money sent through Chinese broker helped families in DPRK cover basic living costs

A South Korean court fined a North Korean defector over $6,700 for brokering money transfers from other defectors to their families still living in North Korea.

The Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Court on July 15 imposed a $6,760 (10 million won) fine against Ju Su-yun after she was convicted of violating the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, according to a copy of the court’s ruling provided Wednesday by her attorney, Kim Myung-chul.

Ju, who defected from North Korea in 2009, accepted defectors’ requests to send money to their families back home through a Chinese broker without registration, the