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bassexpander
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 Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject: They gave her just 5 years??? |
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She must have talked in order to get off so light!
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/15/koreas.spy.ap/index.html
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A North Korean woman accused in a sensational espionage case involving sex and poisoned needles was sentenced Wednesday by a South Korean court to five years in prison.
Won Jeong Hwa was arrested in July on charges of passing classified information to the North, including the locations of key military installations, lists of North Korean defectors and personal information on South Korean military officers.
Prosecutors alleged Won used "sex as a tool" for her mission, dating a South Korean army officer and making him work for her. Investigators have also said she plotted to assassinate South Korean intelligence agents with poison needles, but did not carry out the plan.
On Wednesday, the Suwon District Court, south of Seoul, accepted a prosecutors' demand that she be sentenced to five years in prison, a court official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. He could not give more details.
Won is the second North Korean spy arrested in South Korea in a decade.
The movie-like details in the charges against her have drawn keen media attention, with some newspapers calling her Korea's version of "Mata Hari," the notorious dancer-turned-World War I spy.
The case further frayed South Korea's already troubled relations with the North, as the communist nation protested angrily that Seoul has fabricated the case to sully Pyongyang's image.
The two sides fought the 1950-53 Korean War that ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula technically at war. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| So what will happen when she gets released? Will she be deported or just given residency here? |
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bassexpander
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| That should have been addressed in the article, but wasn't. |
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alpope23
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| Probably a reduced sentence for cooperating. |
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Knucklehead
Joined: 06 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| She will get hundreds of marriage proposals just like that other Female Nork Spy from a couple decades ago. |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:28 am Post subject: |
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A light sentence - because after she was arrested - she probably changed sides
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told the South many of the "Norths secrets" etc
nothing else would explain such a light sentence - unless she also slept with the prosecutor.. |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
A light sentence - because after she was arrested - she probably changed sides
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told the South many of the "Norths secrets" etc
nothing else would explain such a light sentence - unless she also slept with the prosecutor.. |
Well, we know she didn't sleep with an English teacher...she would've gotten the chair. |
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