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Elderly North Korean spies trapped in South yearn for home
Seo Ok-yeol has spent nearly six decades trapped on enemy soil, surviving 29 years in a prison where he was tortured by South Korean guards before being released to a life of poverty and police surveillance. Now, 89 years old and bedridden with illness, ...
North Korea military officer in rare defection to South: report
A North Korean military officer, accompanied by a civilian, defected to the South across the Yellow Sea on Saturday, a South Korean news report said, citing a government source. "A small boat was spotted in waters off the north of Baengnyeong Island," near the inter-Korean ...
Trump says spy infiltrated his campaign but lawyer casts doubt
U.S. President Donald Trump accused the Justice Department on Friday of trying to frame him by planting a spy in his 2016 campaign — an allegation his own lawyer said might not be true. Promoting a theory that is circulating in conservative circles, Trump quoted ...
The West's knowledge of the secret Russian nerve agent the U.K. says was used to poison a former spy and his daughter came from a sample obtained by Germany in the 1990s, according to a report by German media organizations. In a joint report published ...
The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday it had indicted a former CIA operative for spying for China, in a case that could be tied to the dramatic collapse of the CIA's China network eight years ago. Three years after he left the CIA in 2007, ...
Russians posed as IS hackers, threatened U.S. military wives
Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone from hackers threatening to slaughter her family. "Dear Angela!" the Facebook message read. "Bloody Valentine's Day!" "We know everything about you, ...
Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records, official report shows
The U.S. National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said. The sharp increase from 151 million occurred during the second full ...
U.S. officials drill out locks, inspect Russian consular home in Seattle
Officials with the U.S. State Department have drilled out locks to access and inspect the former Russian consul general's residence in Seattle, a day after Russian staff vacated the site. President Donald Trump's administration announced last month that the diplomatic outpost would be closed and ...
Norwegian detainee in Russia admits being courier for Oslo's spy service: lawyer
A Norwegian man suspected by Russia of espionage has admitted to being a courier for Norway's military intelligence, his Norwegian lawyer said on Sunday. Frode Berg, a retired former guard on the Norwegian-Russian border, has been detained since his arrest in Moscow last December, but ...
China launches new website that lets users report 'foreign spies'
China has ramped up its crackdown on foreign espionage with a new website in both Mandarin and English that allows users to report alleged threats such as collusion with foreign countries that endangers the country's "sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security." The website, www.12339.gov.cn, which ...
U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Saturday denied a media report that the special counsel investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has evidence Cohen visited Prague that year. Citing unidentified sources, McClatchy said on Friday that investigators for Special ...
