Four South Koreans Jailed for Spying For North Korea
This is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to the number of North Korean spies in South Korea, but at least they put four of them away in jail:
Four South Koreans were jailed for up to nine years Thursday for spying for North Korea and passing on the information to Pyongyang’s agents in Japan and China.
The Seoul Central District Court gave a fifth person a suspended jail term, a court spokeswoman told AFP.
The five were arrested last July on charges of violating the South’s security law.
The court passed a nine-year sentence on a 49-year-old man surnamed Kim, and jail terms ranging from five to seven years on the other three.
The five were convicted of collecting intelligence on South Korean political circles as well as on the activities of pro-North Korean groups in the South.
The prosecutors had demanded life imprisonment for Kim, citing his alleged long-term direct ties with North Korea and reluctance to repent. [Asia One]
You can read more about these convicted spies at these prior ROK Drop postings here and here. As usual these spies had ties to the South Korean academic and political left.
