As food is scarce, malnutrition is widespread in the country and even those who are in military service are not exempted of this. There were other horrors surrounding serving in the North Korean military as a female. I don’t know whether he’s dead or alive, but if Korea ever gets reunified, I’m going to find him and even if I can’t make him feel ten times the pain I felt, I want to at least smack him on the right side of his face the same way he did to me,” she said. “Many other women have gone through something similar. “There wasn’t really anyone I could tell or report this to,” she said. After the sexual and physical assault, he asked: “How do you think this is going to make me look?” He even threatened her that he would “make life a living hell” should she tell anyone of what transpired. She said that her ears bled and her teeth were loose after the beating. She was then told to remove her underwear and “then out of nowhere, he comes at me,” she said.Īfter sexually assaulting her, the high-ranking officer proceeded to beat her. I never could have imagined he’d try something,” she remembered. Left with no choice, she complied with the Major General’s orders. The officer claimed that he was inspecting her for malnutrition, so she could be sent to a hospital for treatment if necessary. Then he abruptly tells me to take off all my clothes,” she said. O ne day, he tells everyone else to leave except for me. The Major General was this man who was around 45 years old and I was only 18 years old at the time,” Lee narrated. “I was in the early stages of malnutrition… I weighed just around 81 pounds and was about 5’2. Such abuse is something Lee herself has gone through, as she shared her personal story during the interview: As another defector confided, sleeping around is quite common for high-ranking officers. Officers in charge of uniform and ration distribution would often use their power to force female soldiers to have sex with them.
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