Ministry of Perfect Timing

Seoul Condoles [?] N.Korea on Death of Spymaster— Chosun Ilbo, August 21, 2006

Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok on Monday expressed his condolences to his North Korean counterpart Kwon Ho-ung on the death of Rim Dong-ok, the vice chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland[….] The North Korea committee happens to have another job in planning anti-South Korean operations like dispatching spies, in cooperation with the 35th office of the Workers’ Party.

Chameleon N.Korean Spy Nabbed in Seoul
— Same paper, same day.

Prosecutors say they found Jeong is a spy under the 35th office of the North’s Workers’ Party and took pictures of nuclear power plants in Uljin, air force radar stations in Cheonan, the USFK base in Yongsan, Seoul and the Ministry of Defense in Seoul. Jeong also unsuccessfully tried to photograph Cheong Wa Dae twice in March 1996. He started his operations in Southeast Asia in July 1993 and changed his identities four times, from Bangladeshi to Thai, Chinese and Filipino.