South Korean authorities have launched an investigation after the decomposing remains of a North Korean defector were found in the capital.
The defector was a woman in her 40s who escaped to South Korea in 2002, according to police and South Korea’s Unification Ministry. The woman had missed multiple rent payments and could not be reached, so the Seoul Housing & Communities Corporation – a public housing company – sent workers to visit her apartment, where they found her body, according to Seoul police. Her body was severely decomposed, to an “almost skeleton status,” police said.
South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare had previously warned there were “signs of a crisis,” prompting local Seoul authorities to begin their own probe. Defectors began entering South Korea in significant numbers around the turn of the century, most fleeing first over North Korea’s lengthy border with China. Since 1998, more than 33,000 people have defected from North to South Korea, according to the Unification Ministry, with the annual numbers peaking at 2,914 in 2009.
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