Northern Spy Lifts Cloak on Koreas’ Deadly Rivalry

[ChrisSmolinski]

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In May 1990, he and a colleague left the port of Nampo aboard a vessel disguised as a Japanese fishing boat, stopping in China to pick up supplies from a North Korean cargo ship before entering international waters. There, the agents set off in a submersible to the South Korean island of Jeju.

The pair operated in the South for the next five months, sending coded reports to Pyongyang, using radios hidden in a mountain by earlier agents. At midnight, an announcer on Pyongyang Radio would read their handlers’ instructions in a series of five-digit numbers. Mr. Kim and his bosses used the text of a popular South Korean novel to decipher one another’s messages.

In October, the two agents returned to Pyongyang by submersible, carrying with them one of the two South Korean dissidents they had recruited as spies, whiskey and wristwatches as gifts for their bosses, and far more precious cargo, a North Korean woman who had operated as an agent in the South for 10 years.

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Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/world/asia/northern-spy-lifts-cloak-on-koreas-deadly-rivalry.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&

[K5KNT]

Thanks Chris.

That was an interesting read!

[SingleSideburn]

Was the North Korean woman hot?

It said she was, "...far more precious cargo..."

Uh, I mean, more precious than moonshine and Timexes?

or, better than, uh, Wild Turkey and Rolexes?

I don't believe stories that lack essential details.

My gal is more valuable than a calculator watch and some Four Roses, she's that hot.