Two Chinese Students Sentenced to Prison in South Korea for Filming U.S. and Korean Airbases
Considering that they made multiple trips to South Korea to film U.S. and Korean airbases it seems to me that Chinese intelligence was hoping to use high school student in an effort to avoid detection. It worked until a local resident finally noticed them and called police:
Two Chinese nationals were sentenced to prison Thursday for illegally filming fighter jets at several South Korean and U.S. military facilities and attempting to intercept traffic control communications.
The Suwon District Court sentenced an 18-year-old Chinese high school student to an indeterminate prison term of 1 1/2 to two years and a 20-year-old Chinese man to two years in prison, both for general treason. An indeterminate sentence is applied to minors under the juvenile law.
It is the first time in South Korea that a foreigner has been found guilty of general treason under the Criminal Act.
The court also ordered the confiscation of their cameras and other items used in the crime.
The two were arrested and indicted for taking hundreds of detailed photos of fighter jets taking off and landing at major air bases nationwide during multiple visits to South Korea between the second half of 2024 and March last year, when both were high school students.
They were found to have visited four South Korean and U.S. military facilities in Suwon, Osan, Pyeongtaek and Cheongju, as well as three major international airports — Incheon, Gimpo and Jeju. They were caught by police in March last year after a resident reported them for illegally filming fighter jets taking off and landing at Suwon Air Base.
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A couple of points;
Considering @GIKorea ‘s original post is based on poor research and flawed logic, I wonder if this is one of his attempts to show that he’s not been funded by China.
Since the photo of the Osan F-16s show part of the Osan AB in the background the photographer for Korea Times certainly would have been arrested.
But considering nothing happened, that means Korea Times received permission from Osan AB to photograph and publish the photo.
“Do you see American high school students employed by the CIA taking photos near Russian and Chinese airbases?”
Hell no. American high school students are crafty as fùck.
But they are everywhere.