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Jan 13, 2010
N.Korean spy jailed 10 years
<!-- by line --> <!-- end by line --> SEOUL - A SOUTH Korean court on Wednesday jailed a college lecturer for 10 years after convicting him of spying for North Korea over almost two decades. The 37-year-old, identified only by his family name Lee, was sentenced after breaching the national security law. Lee 'betrayed the nation and posed a threat to national security by providing military secrets to North Korea while spying undercover for it in the past 17 years,' read the ruling of the court in Suweon south of Seoul. As well as the jail term, the court also fined Lee 31 million won (S$38,900), Yonhap news agency reported. Officials said Lee was recruited by the communist North in 1992 while studying at a college in New Delhi. He later visited Pyongyang twice, became a communist party member and received at least US$30,000 (S$41,680) in funds.
After completing graduate courses at home, Lee worked as a college lecturer and became a member of the National Unification Advisory Council - a status that gave him access to confidential data. He was arrested last year. Information he passed to the North between 1997 and February 2009 included the location of key government facilities and of US and South Korean military installations, investigators said. Lee also acquired military knowledge while serving as an information and education officer in the army in 2001, they said. -- AFP
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Jan 13, 2010
N.Korean spy jailed 10 years
<!-- by line --> <!-- end by line --> SEOUL - A SOUTH Korean court on Wednesday jailed a college lecturer for 10 years after convicting him of spying for North Korea over almost two decades. The 37-year-old, identified only by his family name Lee, was sentenced after breaching the national security law. Lee 'betrayed the nation and posed a threat to national security by providing military secrets to North Korea while spying undercover for it in the past 17 years,' read the ruling of the court in Suweon south of Seoul. As well as the jail term, the court also fined Lee 31 million won (S$38,900), Yonhap news agency reported. Officials said Lee was recruited by the communist North in 1992 while studying at a college in New Delhi. He later visited Pyongyang twice, became a communist party member and received at least US$30,000 (S$41,680) in funds.
After completing graduate courses at home, Lee worked as a college lecturer and became a member of the National Unification Advisory Council - a status that gave him access to confidential data. He was arrested last year. Information he passed to the North between 1997 and February 2009 included the location of key government facilities and of US and South Korean military installations, investigators said. Lee also acquired military knowledge while serving as an information and education officer in the army in 2001, they said. -- AFP
