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Jun 4, 2010
S.Korean general in spy case
<!-- by line --> <!-- end by line --> SEOUL - SOUTH Korea's military is investigating a general suspected of leaking secrets to a former spy for Seoul who then sold the information to North Korea, officials and media reports said on Friday. The army general, who wasn't identified, allegedly handed over a military operations plan for coping with emergencies in North Korea drawn up by South Korea and the US, the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper said.
The security breach apparently occurred a few years before the current spike in tensions over North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship in March which killed 46 sailors. The former spy, who worked for South Korea in the 1990s, has been arrested and accused of passing military secrets to the North between 2005 and 2007, the newspaper said. It said the former spy had served in the military and met the general there, but gave no further details about their relationship.
Officials at the Defense Security Command and the National Intelligence Service confirmed that the general was being investigated in the case. The officials, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, declined to give further details about the probe because it was ongoing. On Friday, the agents, arrested in April, were indicted by the Central District Prosecutors' Office in Seoul, the Yonhap news agency said. Officials at the prosecutors' office did not immediately comment on the report. - AP
