North Korean Spy Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
It is amazing for how little money people will sell out their country for:
A South Korean man has been sentenced to five years in prison for spying for North Korea, officials said Saturday.
The 43-year-old man, whose identity was withheld, was found to have received an order from a North Korean agent via the messaging app Telegram in May-June of 2021 to collect information about anti-Pyongyang defectors from North Korea and their activities.
Around that time, the man took about 660 million won (US$479,346) worth of virtual currency from the North Korean agent as funds for operating cryptocurrency investments.
He later approached the head of a North Korean defector group, offering to sponsor the organization. He asked the leader to create a virtual currency wallet and forwarded its address to the North Korean agent.
After the agent transferred 1 million won worth of Bitcoin in the name of donation, the man received videos and photos showing the group sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets in return.
The man was also instructed by the agent to collect personal information of seven active-duty military officers, including their units and resident registration numbers, and attempt to recruit them for espionage.
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It’s amazing how little punishment aka deterrence there is.
5 years… ridiculous.. all in the name of “인권” probably.. the law has become unlawed in SK and let criminals out so easily..
I think this is a good business model.
I’m going to take Big Pharma money to sponsor Gays for Palestine (“the most progressive place in the world right now”).
Then when a shady new experimental vax made with questionable technology for a mild disease needs testing, there will be an established pool of candidates so far detached from reality, they won’t question my Mengele-grade experimentation.