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2 N. Koreans Get 8 Years For Spying

June 11 2012

Ukraine

A court in Ukraine has sentenced two North Korean trade mission employees to eight years each in prison for spying, reports Interfax-AVN.

The spies were exposed by Ukrainian Security Service officers in Dnipropetrovsk, said officials.

The North Korean traveled to Dnipropetrovsk from Minsk in Belarus to recruit an employee of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, Ukrainian prosecutors said.

The design bureau employee reported the contact to the security service, which set up a sting...

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