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| Prosecutors demand 15 years for Nork spies |
| 2010-06-24 |
| SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors demanded 15-year jail terms Wednesday for two North Korean spies accused of attempting to assassinate a high-ranking North Korean defector who has been criticizing his home country and its top leader. The two defendants, known only as Kim, 36, and Tong, 34, were arrested in April on charges of plotting to kill Hwang Jang-yop, former secretary of the North's ruling Workers' Party and chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly. They arrived in Seoul last December disguised as defectors on orders by the North's reconnaissance unit in charge of espionage operations against South Korea to find and kill Hwang. The defendants testified earlier that they were told the defector should not be allowed to die a natural death. During the heavily guarded trial at the Seoul Central District Court, prosecutors said Hwang's assassination would have been a "humiliation" for the South, a show of a weakness in its system, because the defector has been a "symbol of the superiority of South Korea's free democracy over North Korea's socialism. Hwang, 88, defected to South Korea in 1997 and has received repeated death threats for criticizing his former boss, Kim Jong-il. The location of his residence is not publicly known, and South Korean police keep him under round-the-clock surveillance. Prosecutors said the demanded sentence was not a punishment of the defendants but "a warning to the planned crime and the North's spy agency." In giving a final statement, Kim said he "has the mind to want a hard-working life under the South Korean system." Tong did not have anything to say. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Execute them, total cost about ten bucks including Cleaning the rifles, save 15 years worth of food and agitation. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-06-24 01:26 |
| #2 ION WMF > POTUS OBAMA MAY SELL US B-2 SECRETS FOR US$50.oBILYUHN TO CHINA IN ORDER TO REDUCE US DEBT OBLIGATIONS. OBAMA ADMIN. VIEWS THE B-2 "SPIRIT" STEALTH BOMBER AS "STRATEGICALLY OBSOLETE" AGZ US GMD-TMD. IOW, the B-2 has no Mission(s) that can't be done by the B-1 or B-52, + now GLOBAL PROMPT STRIKE. * SAME > US NERVOUS: THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CHINA'S INDIGENOUS, LR "B-2" STYLE STRATEGIC-STRIKE STEALTH BOMBER AGZ THE US MILITARY BASE ON GUAM. * SAME > US: CHINA IS "CHANGING ITS MODERATE FACE" AGZ THE US-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY. THE US VIEWS AND TREATS RISING CHINA AS SIMPLY ANOTHER "JAPAN", WHEREAS CHINA INTENDS TO CHANGE OR RE-DISTRIBUTE GLOBAL ORDER AGZ US POWER. * SAME > US FREQUENT REGIONAL PROVOCATIONS AGZ CHINA MAKES CHINA SEE ANGRY RED: THE SWATHE OF THE "USS GEORGE WASHINGTON/US NUCLEAR SUPERCARRIER" YELLOW SEA CONTROVERSY + THREAT TO CHINA RUNS ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT + SOUTH CHINA SEAS [ Malaccas + Indian Ocean]. * SAME > "ASAHI SHIMBUN" JAPANESE MEDIA: CHINA IS TRYING TO INVALIDATE OR RENDER IRRELEVANT/ HARMLESS AGZ CHINA THE US-JAPAN NUCLEAR SECURITY TREATY BY TRYING TO DEV OR IMPROVE ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THE DANGERS TO WARTIME US CARRIER OPERATIONS BY THE THREAT BY DF-21 ANTI-CARRIER BMS + OTHER PLA NUCLEAR MISSLE, BOMBER BARRAGE. * SAME > CHINA + DPRK CAUGHT IN THE MANy-FACETED TRAP OF US REGIONAL IMPERIALISM: WHOLE OF EAST/MAINLAND ASIA ON THE EVE OF WITNESSING [suffering?] DRAMATIC CHANGES TO THE OLD ORDER. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-24 01:19 |
| #1 They should add a tantalizing bit, by implying that if North Korea collapses, resulting in a peaceful reunification of Korea, then their sentences will likely be reviewed. So at least they have something they can look forward to: the fall of North Korea. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-24 00:26 |