NK Defector Arrested for Espionage

Admitting North Korean defectors is a long and tedious process. This is why (Via ROK Drop)

Prosecutors indicted a 34-year-old North Korean female defector Wednesday on charges of spying for the communist nation.

The woman, identified as Won Jeong-hwa, allegedly relayed military secrets she obtained from Army officers with whom she was having sexual relations over the past five years to the North.

She is the first female spy to be arrested since Lee Sun-sil, a key figure in North Korea’s Communist Party, was apprehended on espionage charges in 1992, and the first defector to violate the National Security Law.

Prosecutor Kim Kyeong-su said this was also the first case of spying uncovered since the two Koreas held a historic summit in 2000.

If she is convicted, the case would confirm concerns over infiltration by agents posing as refugees.