South Korean Intelligence Civilian Employee Arrested for Leaking Names of Spies Operating Abroad

This is a huge compromise of sensitive information by the NIS. The article doesn’t say how high ranking this civilian employee is, but you would think the list of ROK operatives abroad would be a tightly controlled secret that only a few people would have access to:

A civilian employee in South Korea’s military intelligence command was arrested for allegedly leaking military secrets, the Defense Ministry said, as local media speculated the information was about South Korean spies operating abroad and that it may have been sent to North Korea. A military court issued a warrant Tuesday to arrest the employee in the Korea Defense Intelligence Command for alleged leaks of confidential military information, the Defense Ministry said in a brief statement.

It said it won’t disclose details of the employee’s criminal allegations because an investigation was underway. South Korean media reported the employee gave a Chinese national thousands of confidential documents including those on the intelligence command’s list of agents operating in foreign countries with disguised names and jobs. The reports said the leaked documents have the real names and ages of those secret agents and where they are stationed. It was unclear why the employee allegedly handed over the information to the Chinese.

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setnaffa
setnaffa
3 months ago

In a totally-unrelated question, have they run out of ropes or lamp posts in South Korea?

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
3 months ago

Koreas historical problem; short sighted Koreans selling out Korea for personal and short term gains. Korea should have nothing to do with commie china, but sold out for short term gains…now look where they are.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
3 months ago

Bet the traitor is a member of Moon’s south korean commie party.

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