Moon Administration Looking Into North Korean Claims that Defectors Were Kidnapped

Remember the 12 North Korean restaurant workers that defected to South Korea that infuriated the Kim regime?  Well it appears the Moon administration may be laying the ground work to send them back:

South Korea says it will look closer into the circumstances surrounding the arrival of a dozen North Korean restaurant workers in 2016 after a television report suggested some of the women might have been brought to the South against their will.

Unification Ministry spokesman Baik Tae-hyun on Friday did not provide a clear answer on whether the women could be sent back to the North if it’s confirmed they didn’t want to come to South Korea.

Seoul had previously said it sufficiently confirmed the women’s free will in escaping from the North and resettling in the South.  [Korea Times]

You can read more at the link, but I am not sure what else there is to examine on this issue.  The 12 defectors have been resettled in South Korea and nothing is stopping them from going to a local television station and claim they were kidnapped.  The Kim regime has been using their leftist lawyer allies in South Korea, the group call Minbyun, to claim that the the 12 restaurant workers were kidnapped by the ROK National Intelligence Service (NIS).  Since their defection Minbyun has been making life very hard for the refugees anyway they can.

Now it appears that the Moon administration may be putting pressure on these 12 restaurant workers to return to North Korea as well.  I would not be surprised if the Moon administration is also putting pressure the other high profile defector Thae Yong-ho to keep silent during the Kim regime’s current charm offensive as well.