Latest update: 21/11/2011 

- espionage - North Korea - Pyongyang - Seoul - South Korea


Spy wars: northern defectors under threat

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Armed with a poisoned needle, a North Korean agent posed as a defector in order to reach South Korea. His mission was to kill an anti-Pyongyang activist. But the spy was unmasked by local authorities and arrested. Our reporters, Marie Linton and Guillaume Bression, met with the defector he was supposed to murder.

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