S.Korea jails N.Korea spy for 10 years


A South Korean court Wednesday jailed a college lecturer for 10 years after convicting him of spying for North Korea over almost two decades.

The 37-year-old, identified only by his family name Lee, was sentenced after breaching the national security law.

Lee "betrayed the nation and posed a threat to national security by providing military secrets to North Korea while spying undercover for it in the past 17 years," read the ruling of the court in Suweon south of Seoul.

As well as the jail term, the court also fined Lee 31 million won (28,000 dollars), Yonhap news agency reported.

Officials said Lee was recruited by the communist North in 1992 while studying at a college in New Delhi. He later visited Pyongyang twice, became a communist party member and received at least 30,000 dollars in funds.

After completing graduate courses at home, Lee worked as a college lecturer and became a member of the National Unification Advisory Council -- a status that gave him access to confidential data. He was arrested last year.

Information he passed to the North between 1997 and February 2009 included the location of key government facilities and of US and South Korean military installations, investigators said.

Lee also acquired military knowledge while serving as an information and education officer in the army in 2001, they said.

The two Koreas have remained technically at war since their 1950-1953 conflict. South Korea has jailed numerous spies over the years.

In 2008 a 35-year-old woman who came from the North in the guise of a defector and used sex to secure military secrets was jailed for five years.

North Korea denied she was its agent, calling her "human scum" and describing the trial as a "threadbare charade" orchestrated to heighten tensions.

Seoul's official data shows more than 4,500 people have been exposed as spies for the North since the peninsula was divided in 1948



Release of Former Chairperson of Hanchongryon Demanded




The south Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) issued a statement on December 31 last year at which it denounced such fascist action of the authorities as arresting the former chairperson of the organization.

Recalling that on December 30 the fascist police walked away by force Song Hyo Won, chairperson of the 13th-term Hanchongryon, who had participated in the "72-hour emergency people's action", the statement declared that the suppression of Hanchongryon is intolerable as it is precisely an all-out repression of justice and conscience.


It noted that the dictatorial regime should understand that it can never turn back the wheel of history advancing toward justice and progress no matter how desperately it is trying to stem the trend of the times by invoking evil laws including the "National Security Law" and mobilizing the security forces.


It demanded the authorities set free Song at once and abolish the NSL.



Media Man Arrested in S. Korea


The south Korean puppet police on Jan. 6 arrested Kwon Ho Yong, a media man of the "Socialist Workers Newspaper", on the charge of the violation of the notorious "Security Law".

That day policemen in plain clothes belonging to the "Security Investigation Group" of the puppet National Police Agency broke into his office in Yongdungpho, Seoul, and arrested him before taking him to its "anti-communist section".


The fascist police resorted to such repressive actions in October last year as forcibly searching his office and house and issuing summons to appear at the police station. They perpetrated the recent tyrannical action against him when he came out in protest against the police suppression, laying bare the injustice of the NSL.


DOWN WITH THE SOUTH KOREAN PUPPET REGIME!