A pro-North Korean group is under increased suspicion in South Korea, of providing a significant amount of information, including state secrets, to Pyongyang recently after large amounts of evidence were found on USB flash drives in their offices.
“I doubted at first whether the operations against the South could really work, but we’ve found so much evidence of their (Ilsimhoe) operations from scanning USB memory drives. There will be more documents pouring out,” a prosecutor said.
South Korea’s intelligence agency say that five arrested members of the group known as “Ilsimhoe,” which includes members of the Democratic Labor Party, may have provided confidential information such as the local political reaction to the North’s nuclear test on Oct. 9.
The group are also under suspicion of providing Pyongyang behind-the-scenes information regarding a move by opposition parties to dismiss Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung in 2005, the DLP’s strategy to defeat the main opposition Grand National Party during elections for the Seoul mayor’s post in May, and plans to spread anti-Americanism in the South via civic groups.
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Korean Times
Korean Herald
