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Top North Korean Nuclear Researcher Arrested on Spy ...
According to The Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper based in Seoul, North Korea’s chief nuclear scientist has been arrested on charges of espionage. The senior researcher, Kim So-in, is rumored to have been arrested in May and taken to the Yodok concentration camp. It is also believed that his family was arrested with him.
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N Korea’s assassination plans stalled
It’s no secret that refugees from North Korea’s oppressive government are streaming in droves to South Korea, looking for a place where they can speak freely and find enough food to subsist on. But we bet you didn’t know that every refugee seeking a safe haven in South Korea gets screened and interviewed by intelligence services…
S. Korean drug trafficker spies for enemy
Accused of spying for North Korea in China, a 55-year-old South Korean man was arrested last Thursday while on a brief trip to South Korea. The China-North Korea border is a hotbed of activity for North Koreans looking to escape the clutches of an authoritarian government..
College lecturer exposed as spy in S. Korea
Spy arrests the world over this week: While alleged Colombian spies were being arrested in Venezuela, across the ocean, South Korea has arrested a man they believe to be a North Korean spy. The man in question is…
American reporters freed from N. Korea
So, what happens when two American journalists are arrested in a communist country in which the U.S. has no diplomatic presence, and – following accusations of espionage – are sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in…
N. Korea accuses U.S. and S. Korea of aerial espion ...
The state-run Korean Central News Agency recently issued a government statement saying that the U.S. and South Korea have conducted 180 spy flights over North Korea’s airspace in the month of July, Bloomberg reports. North Korea refers to this campaign as a massive mobilization of…
Rush of cyber attacks in South Korea abates
The websites in South Korea that have recently been crashing under a series of Denial of Service (DoS) cyber attacks seem to be operating regularly again, since last Thursday’s assault. As a result, South Korea’s National Intelligence…
N. Korea leader names son new spy chief
Last summer, when Kim Jong Il – the leader of the communist state of North Korea – had a stroke, speculation ran wild about who would take the reins of the country if Kim were to die without naming a successor. Kim recovered, and it looks like he’s got big plans for…
S. Korea spy agency launches educational ‘spot th ...
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) in South Korea has decided it’s time to educate the country’s youth about the Northern spies in their midst. And the ‘spot the spy’ flash video game is how they plan to do it. The game marks the 59th anniversary of the start of…
N. Korea says it will fire at any Japanese spy plan ...
In North Korea, officials have issued a no-jokes warning to the Japanese, whom they’ve accused of carrying on aerial espionage very close to one of North Korea’s missile launch sites. The threat is as follows: any Japanese planes to enter…
12 years in N. Korea prison for 2 U.S. reporters
Arrested in March for ‘spying’ on and entering North Korea illegally, two female American journalists – after a 5-day trial – were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for committing…
U.S. Female Reporters Face Trial in N. Korea
Over a month ago, on March 17, two US journalists working for the San Francisco-based CurrentTV, which is owned by former VP Al Gore, were arrested by Korean patrolmen for having allegedly crossed the China/North Korea border illegally. They were in the area on an assignment pertaining to North Korean refugees.
North Korea did not share many details…
Two American Women Held in N. Korea for Spying
Two American journalists based in San Francisco and working for CurrentTV have been arrested by North Korean guards and are currently facing intense interrogation in Pyongyang, North Korea. Reporter Laura Ling and photographer Euna Kim are allegedly under investigation for espionage, but U.S. officials have not been very open about their plans to get Ling and…