North Korea Claims They Have Arrested Two South Korean Spies, Were they Kidnapped from China?
Via reader tip comes news that the North Koreans have arrested two alleged South Korean spies:
North Korea said late on Thursday it had arrested two South Koreans based in the Chinese border city of Dandong, accusing them of spying for South Korea.
The North’s official KCNA news agency showed images of two middle-aged men it identified as Kim Kuk Gi and Choe Chun Gil speaking at a news conference in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
The two men were South Korean nationals working as spies for Seoul’s National Intelligence Service from the Chinese border city of Dandong, it said.
“They zealously took part in the anti-DPRK smear campaign of the U.S. imperialists and the puppet group of traitors to isolate and blockade the DPRK in (the) international arena,” the agency said, using North Korea’s official DPRK acronym for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. [Reuters]
You can read more at the link, but the real question is how were they arrested? Did the Chinese arrest them and send them to North Korea? Doubtful. Were they kidnapped by the North Koreans and brought to North Korea? The North Koreans have done this before. If so the South Korean government should be putting pressure on China to get them back.
Secondly are these people really spies? They are apparently Christian missionaries assisting North Korean refugees fleeing North Korea.So they may have just been kidnapped just like Reverend Kim Dong-sik was a few years ago simply to stop the underground railroad assisting North Korean refugees.
