Another South Korean Professor Caught Spying for the North

A South Korean university lecturer accused of spying for North Korea since the early 1990s has been indicted on espionage charges, prosecutors said Thursday. The suspect, identified by the surname Lee, was charged with giving North Korea confidential information, including the locations of key South Korean military facilities and an army operations manual, prosecutors in Suwon, south of Seoul, said in a statement. [MacLeans]

They could have waited a few years and gotten it all from Google Earth. Anyway, if you wonder why South Korea’s extreme left can fill the streets with brainwashed legions of pubescent anti-American zombies, just have a gander at who their teachers are. In terms of political demographics, South Korea and North Korea often seem to be racing toward collapse. This is why South Korea has ceased to function as an ally, and why we should redeploy the Eighth U.S. Army to a place where its presence will serve American interests:

The 37-year-old man, who taught politics at a South Korean university, was arrested on Sept. 11 and indicted Tuesday for violating South Korea’s National Security Law, the statement said. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. [….]

Lee began spying for North Korea in 1992 after meeting North Korean agent Ri Jin Woo while studying at the University of Delhi in India, prosecutors said. He stored “vast amounts of confidential military information” on compact discs, portable drives and laptop computers, which he relayed to Ri during meetings in China, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand and elsewhere, they said.

Lee gathered the information while working as an army officer, an adviser to the presidential National Unification Advisory Council and at the government-run Education Center for Unification, prosecutors said. He also joined North Korea’s Workers’ Party in 1994 after making a secret trip to the North, they said.

I wonder if Lee is the same Blue House advisor — or perhaps, one of those other government employees — who fell under suspicion when the Ilshimhue spy ring was uncovered during the final days of the Roh Administration, and whose string of revelations was truncated by the sacking of the head of the National Intelligence Service, and his replacement by a loyal party hack.

Hat tip to Robert Neff at TMH, who has more on the history of commie professors infiltrating South Korean colleges, but omits Prof. Kang Jeong-Ku, no doubt among many others.