South Korea to Hold to Discussions with the U.S. About Leaked Spy Documents
I hoped nobody is shocked by the news that the U.S. collects intelligence on its allies:
The presidential office said Sunday it will hold necessary discussions with the United States following a U.S. report accusing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of intercepting South Korean government communications regarding aid to Ukraine in war with Russia.
In a report published Saturday in the U.S. (local time), the New York Times said some parts of the CIA documents, posted on a social media chat platform Discord, detailed South Korea’s “internal debates about whether to give the U.S. artillery shells for use in Ukraine, violating Seoul’s policy on providing lethal aid.”
The newspaper noted South Korean officials were concerned that U.S. President Joe Biden would pressure President Yoon Suk Yeol to come through and that the U.S. learned about South Korean deliberations through “a signals intelligence report.” It’s a term used by spy agencies to describe intercepted communications, from phone calls to electronic messages, according to the New York Times.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link.
This is now getting the much bigger story, as there are now leaks that the President of South Korea ordered his top ministers to comply with US demands on South Korea to send arms to Ukraine, using excuses that it’s ‘selling’ arms to Poland and Germany. And Yoon also looks like ordered his top security personnel to bug the opposition party members and relayed State secret information to the CIA. As I suspected, Yoon is a CIA spy plant, working for the United States. The leaked documents also show Yoon negotiating with the US, bartering Korean state secrets to sell to the US, in return for US promises that Yoon be allowed to make a speech in the US Congress during his visit which is scheduled for later this spring, as well as the US to change Japan’s minds to let Yoon be part of the G7 meeting that’s scheduled to be held this year in Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pMaWOyl4Cc&ab_channel=KBSNews
Working discretely and directly with a foreign power, to hand over state secrets and information to a foreign power, is what we call ‘treason’. Just imagine what kind of a fallout there would have been if Biden had relayed state secrets to South Korea illegally working with the Korean national security agency, in return for personal gains. There would be immediate calls for impeachment if that were to happen.
Biden did that with Ukraine.
Media did nothing.
But they did make a couple years of fake Trump / Russia collusion stories… so they weren’t just sitting on their hands.
Yes, the US spying on its allies isn’t news.
But the possibility that the US may have planted bugs in the Yongsan Presidential Office or has an inside source within the Presidental staff is.
The internal debates in question were held in a conference room in the Presidential Office, which means the US had listening devices that could listen in on those meetings or someone among the Presidential staff leaking the minutes of meetings to US intelligence.
We aren’t talking about intercepting mobile phone calls or tapping cables as in previous news reports.
If there are bugs in the Presidential Office then the question rises on whether proper security precautions were taken during the rush to leave the Blue House by Yoon.
Me thinks the US may not have been the only ones who may have planted bugs there if there was an opportunity.
And I can imagine the Presidential Office going to damage control overdrive.