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Seoul Toughens Response on North Korean Spies

Yoon government reverses Moon’s policy, goes after domestic “democracy unions”

Jan 18, 2023
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By: Shim Jae Hoon

South Korean intelligence agents are, for the first time in years, breaking up underground subversion efforts by North Korea. NIS investigators this morning (January 18) raided the office of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, otherwise known as radical "democracy unions" searching for evidence of its penetration by and connection…

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