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Prosecutors yesterday indicted the stepfather of a North Korean woman, who was arrested last month for spying for the North, on charges of aiding her activities.
Kim Dong-soon, 63, allegedly helped bankroll the spying activities of Won Jeong-hwa by offering North Korean- or Chinese-produced agricultural and marine products worth nearly 960 million won ($853,000), some for free and others with cash in return.
"Although Kim sold some of the products to Won, he enabled her to trade them for her intelligence work in the South. In that sense, we filed the charge of him contravening the security law," said an official with the joint investigative team.
The team, consisting of the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office, the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, the Defense Security Command and the National Intelligence Service, rendered its investigative result yesterday. Kim denies the charges, insisting that he is simply a North Korean defector.
Between December 2003 and January 2006, Kim allegedly sold or gave various items - including frozen octopuses from the North and 40-odd paintings by renowned North Korean artists - to the 34-year-old Won. Kim had given her stepdaughter 3 million won per month between September 2004 and January 2006, before which period Won was given 500,000 won per month, according to investigators.
Prosecutors say Kim infiltrated the South claiming to be a North Korean defector in December 2006. Upon the North's directive, they say Kim tried to ascertain the whereabouts of Hwang Jang-yup in June last year. Hwang is the former secretary of the North Korean Worker's Party who defected to the South in 1997. Kim's stepdaughter strived to carry out the mission, but failed.
Kim Dong-soon was born in Incheon, South Korea, in February 1945. He moved to the North after his father was forcefully conscripted by the Japanese military and escaped. He graduated from an arts college in Pyongyang. In 1974, Kim joined the North Korean Worker's Party. In 1975, he was honored with a national medal for his work in constructing the Revolution Museum.
Kim is an in-law of Kim Young-nam, president of the Presidium of the North's Supreme People's Assembly. The daughter of his stepsister married the third son of Kim Young-nam.
Won came to the South in 2001 under the disguise of a Korean-Chinese after married a South Korean to hide her identity, prosecutors say. Won is accused of using her trade business as a front to frequently travel to China, where she is said to have shared the military secrets with a North Korean liaison officer.
The information she was allegedly ordered to produce included the location of key military facilities. Won also was directed to assassinate South Korean government agents who were collecting information about the North, investigators said.
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Well well well.... this just keeps getting better and better.
Kim Dong-soon, 63, allegedly helped bankroll the spying activities of Won Jeong-hwa by offering North Korean- or Chinese-produced agricultural and marine products worth nearly 960 million won ($853,000), some for free and others with cash in return.
"Although Kim sold some of the products to Won, he enabled her to trade them for her intelligence work in the South. In that sense, we filed the charge of him contravening the security law," said an official with the joint investigative team.
The team, consisting of the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office, the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, the Defense Security Command and the National Intelligence Service, rendered its investigative result yesterday. Kim denies the charges, insisting that he is simply a North Korean defector.
Between December 2003 and January 2006, Kim allegedly sold or gave various items - including frozen octopuses from the North and 40-odd paintings by renowned North Korean artists - to the 34-year-old Won. Kim had given her stepdaughter 3 million won per month between September 2004 and January 2006, before which period Won was given 500,000 won per month, according to investigators.
Prosecutors say Kim infiltrated the South claiming to be a North Korean defector in December 2006. Upon the North's directive, they say Kim tried to ascertain the whereabouts of Hwang Jang-yup in June last year. Hwang is the former secretary of the North Korean Worker's Party who defected to the South in 1997. Kim's stepdaughter strived to carry out the mission, but failed.
Kim Dong-soon was born in Incheon, South Korea, in February 1945. He moved to the North after his father was forcefully conscripted by the Japanese military and escaped. He graduated from an arts college in Pyongyang. In 1974, Kim joined the North Korean Worker's Party. In 1975, he was honored with a national medal for his work in constructing the Revolution Museum.
Kim is an in-law of Kim Young-nam, president of the Presidium of the North's Supreme People's Assembly. The daughter of his stepsister married the third son of Kim Young-nam.
Won came to the South in 2001 under the disguise of a Korean-Chinese after married a South Korean to hide her identity, prosecutors say. Won is accused of using her trade business as a front to frequently travel to China, where she is said to have shared the military secrets with a North Korean liaison officer.
The information she was allegedly ordered to produce included the location of key military facilities. Won also was directed to assassinate South Korean government agents who were collecting information about the North, investigators said.
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Well well well.... this just keeps getting better and better.