Tag: unpardonable espionage

NOKOR sentences Korean American to 10 years hard labor

(REUTERS)   North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labor on Friday for subversion, China’s Xinhua news agency reported, in the latest conviction of a foreigner for crimes against the isolated state. Kim Dong Chul was arrested in North Korea in October and had admitted to committing “unpardonable espionage” including stealing military secrets, the North’s official news agency reported earlier. “The Supreme Court of the Democratic People’s Republic of […]