NK claims detained man is spy for SK
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NORTH Korea yesterday presented to media a man it alleges is a South Korean spy who tried to enter the country to kidnap children.
During a Pyongyang news conference, detainee Ko Hyon Chol said he apologized for a crime he called “unforgivable.”
Ko, 53, said he was born in North Korea but fled the country in early 2013 to resettle in South Korea. He said he was later recruited by South Korea’s spy service for a mission to abduct children from North Korea. He said he was arrested on May 27 on an island in the Amnok River which runs along the border between North Korea and China.
Seoul’s Unification Ministry criticized North Korea for using a South Korean man for what it calls propaganda and demanded his release. The National Intelligence Service, South Korea’s main spy agency, said it has no ties with Ko’s case.
It wasn’t immediately known whether and when he’ll be put on a trial.
North Korea is detaining at least three other South Koreans, two Americans and one Canadian for alleged espionage and other anti-state activities.
In early May, South Korea instructed its foreign embassies to take extra precautions against possible North Korean attempts to kidnap or attack South Koreans abroad.
The instruction was issued in response to North Korea’s threat to retaliate for April’s group defection by 13 North Koreans, who Pyongyang says were kidnapped by South Korean spies while working at a North Korea-owned restaurant in China.
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