SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The foreign ministry said Tuesday it has been providing consular assistance to a South Korean national arrested in Russia reportedly on espionage charges. Russia’s TASS news agency reported Monday that South Korean citizen Baek Won-soon has been held in the Lefortovo detention facility in Moscow since late February, and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Four South Korean activists have been charged with espionage for allegedly taking orders from Pyongyang and staging a series of protests opposing Seoul’s plan to procure U.S.-built stealth fighter jets, sources said Friday. According to the sources, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the National Police Agency (NPA) recently [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A researcher from a Seoul-based private think tank has been indicted on espionage charges after allegedly contacting a North Korean agent and spying for the North, prosecutors said Sunday. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office said it has referred Lee Jeong-hun, a research fellow of the April 27 Era [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean defector on trial for espionage said Tuesday he plans to marry his lawyer later this month. Yoo Woo-seong, who formerly held Chinese nationality in North Korea, has been at the center of a high-profile forgery case in which South Korea’s intelligence agency allegedly fabricated Chinese government [...]