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Taking an oath to serve your country expires when you retire, I guess.

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110803000659

Prosecutors have indicted three retired high-ranking Air Force officers including a former four-star general on charges of providing classified military information to the U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin in recent years, officials said Wednesday.

Among them was a former Air Force chief of staff identified only by his surname Kim. Kim, 81, led the Air Force from 1982-84. Since 1995, he has run a local weapons brokerage firm.

The indictment has triggered seething public criticism over military retirees� poor national security awareness and deteriorating sense of responsibility.

The other two, who worked with Kim at the same firm, are a former colonel, surnamed Lee, and a former senior master sergeant. All three have been indicted without detention, officials at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors� Office said.

According to the prosecution, the three received a total of 2.5 billion won ($2.35 million) from Lockheed Martin on several occasions in 2009 and 2010.

Investigators suspect that from 2004 and early last year on 12 separate occasions, Kim offered to the U.S. firm confidential information including the joint strategy objective plan, mid-term defense plans and other pieces on the Air Force�s plans to bolster its military capabilities.

Kim appears to have obtained the information from his high-level acquaintances in the military and the state weapons acquisition agency, prosecutors said.

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I don't really see the problem. Lockheed martin would ultimately win the orders anyway.

Its not treason because the US is a close ally.



Its nice to see Korean nationalism breaks down eventually.

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