Former POW Daughter Defects to South Korea

UPDATE: The Korea Liberator has a great posting about this family’s history. The father was actually 2ID KATUSA when he was captured during the Korean War. Amazing story. Go read the Liberators take on it.
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The daughter of a former ROK Army POW in North Korea from the Korean War has now also defected from North Korea to join her dad who also defected:

Lee Bok-lee, 33, arrived at Incheon International Airport west of Seoul with her two-year-old son and a three-year-old nephew on a flight from China, the Unification Ministry said.

“I am so happy to be reunited with my family,” said Lee, a daughter of Lee Ki-Choon, who escaped to South Korea in November 2004 after being held there since 1952.

The former POW, 75, lives in the southern port of Busan with his second daughter and her husband, who fled North Korea in September last year.

I wonder how she avoided the gulag when her father first defected? Maybe she was already hiding in China.