[News] Seoul jails 'sex for secrets' spy fr …
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A North Korean woman accused in a
sensational espionage case involving sex and poisoned needles was
sentenced Wednesday by a South Korean court to five years in
prison.
Won Jeong Hwa arrives at the Suwon District Court in Suwon, South
Korea on Wednesday.
Won Jeong Hwa was arrested in July on charges of passing
classified information to the North, including the locations of
key military installations, lists of North Korean defectors and
personal information on South Korean military officers.
Prosecutors alleged Won used "sex as a tool" for her mission,
dating a South Korean army officer and making him work for her.
Investigators have also said she plotted to assassinate South
Korean intelligence agents with poison needles, but did not carry
out the plan.
On Wednesday, the Suwon District Court, south of Seoul, accepted a
prosecutors' demand that she be sentenced to five years in prison,
a court official said on condition of anonymity because he was not
authorized to speak to the media. He could not give more details.
Won is the second North Korean spy arrested in South Korea in a
decade.
The movie-like details in the charges against her have drawn keen
media attention, with some newspapers calling her Korea's version
of "Mata Hari," the notorious dancer-turned-World War I spy.
The case further frayed South Korea's already troubled relations
with the North, as the communist nation protested angrily that
Seoul has fabricated the case to sully Pyongyang's image.
The two sides fought the 1950-53 Korean War that ended in a truce,
not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula technically at war.
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