South Korea general faces arrest for spying

Posted by Mc Parry on June 9th, 2010

SEOUL South Koreas military on Wednesday sought an arrest warrant for a two-star army general accused of leaking the countrys war plan and other secrets to North Korea, a news report said. The Defence Security Command asked military prosecutors to arrest the major-general identified only as Kim for leakingclassified information,Yonhap news agency said. A defence ministry spokesman declined to comment on the report. The leaked secrets include a military operation to be carried out in case of all-out war with North Korea, Yonhap said. The bid to detain the general follows the arrest on June 3 of two people accused of handing over military secrets to the North, Yonhap said.

It said one of them is a former spy for the South who acquired military secrets through the general and handed them to a North Korean agent in China in return for an unspecified payment. The South periodically detains people accused of spying for its communist neighbour. A female North Korean spy arrested last month used sex to secure sensitiveinformation on Seouls subway system, prosecutors have

said. In another case, a female North Korean spy was arrested and jailed for five years in 2008. She had admitted having sex with a South Korean army officer to secure secretinformation.(AFP)