SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean woman has been arrested on suspicion of posing as a defector and spying for North Korea, prosecutors and the local spy agency said Sunday.The 36-year-old woman, identified only by her surname Kim, was accused of collecting information on a Seoul subway and the names of South Korean public servants for the North, said officials at the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office and the National Intelligence Services.
Kim slipped into South Korea in September last year, disguising herself as a North Korean defector, they said. She left for China from her homeland in February 2006 and operated a cosmetics store and a travel agency in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province.
Kim obtained the information by chatting with South Koreans she met while operating a travel agency in China, they said. Among the South Koreans who contacted with her was a 52-year-old man identified only by his surname Oh. He was suspected of directly delivering key information about the Seoul subway where he worked to Kim in October 2007, the officials said.
The officials said that the information on the Seoul subway could be used for terror attacks.