A North Korean defector claims she was forced to have two abortions after being raped by two intelligence officers from the South.

A lieutenant colonel and a master sergeant serving in South's Korea's defence intelligence command allegedly raped the woman, with one of the men said to have abused her repeatedly.

The victim claims the master sergeant sexually assaulted her dozens of times while she was in custody, the woman's lawyers said.

Good Lawyers, the firm representing the woman, told the BBC she was first raped while supposedly unconscious from drinking alcohol.

Jeon Su-mi of Good Lawyers pictured (above) on Wednesday filing the lawsuit for a North Korean defector who alleges she was raped by two South Korean intelligence officers

North Korean defectors living in South Korea protesting against the government's defector policy in Seoul last month after two after two fisherman were sent back to the North (file image)

A series of attacks then continued on the woman from May until Junes this year, it was alleged.

The lieutenant colonel then allegedly raped her once after she reported the master sergeant, according to The Korean Herald.

Both intelligence officers have been suspended while the investigation is underway and the defence ministry's said a criminal investigation case has been sent to the military prosecution for review.

Jeon Su-mi, a lawyer with Good Lawyers said: 'The victim is a North Korean defector and has no family members here and did not have anyone to help her.

'Also, the victim was intimidated by the DIC officers who knew a lot about her. So it was almost impossible for her to resist their assaults.'

Jeon filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of the victim, claiming she had to have two abortions as a result of the abuse she suffered.

North Korean defectors staging a rally denouncing the deportation of North Korean fishermen in front of the government complex in Seoul last month

South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas (file image)

According to South Korea's Ministry of Unification, women account for about 70 per cent of defectors from North Korea.

Human rights group Korea Future Initiative says many of those defectors suffer being being trafficked into the sex trade in China.

In June a group of North Korean defectors escaped from an apartment in China where they being held as cybersex slaves by abseiling out the window.

A priest nicknamed the 'Asian Schindler' helped break them out then smuggled the group across the border.

Last month North Korean defectors living in Seoul protested against the Southern government's policy of deporting defectors.

According to the unification ministry, the South Korean government deported two North Koreans back to the North after learning they killed 16 fellow crew members on a fishing boat.

The two defectors were captured near the Northern Limit Line sea border in the East Sea on November 2.