The statement said Pak Jong Suk came back to the DPRK recently, disillusioned at south Korean society, adding she was taken away to south Korea by south Korean agents.

With her return to the DPRK, the base temptation, abduction and human rights abuses perpetrated against citizens of the DPRK were fully disclosed, the statement said.

It is only the Lee Myung Bak regime of south Korea that tempts or abducts citizens of the DPRK in broad daylight even in foreign countries and unhesitatingly uses them for meeting its sinister political purposes while treating them as slaves, it added.

It demanded the Lee group immediately stop human rights abuses and make an apology.