Nearly half of the North Korean spies arrested by South Korean authorities in the past decade posed as defectors, a South Korean lawmaker citing data from the Ministry of Justice said on Friday.
Rep. Sim Jae-kwon of the opposition center-left Democratic Party said that according to the data, 49 North Korean spies had been caught south of the border in the last decade.
Nearly half of the North Korean spies arrested by South Korean authorities in the past decade posed as defectors, a South Korean lawmaker citing data from the Ministry of Justice said on Friday.
Rep. Sim Jae-kwon of the opposition center-left Democratic Party said that according to the data, 49 North Korean spies had been caught south of the border in the last decade.
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