Category: Information Operations

May 25, 2023

North Korea’s Spies Also in the Progressive Party and Teachers’ Union in South Korea

2023-5-24, Munhwa Ibo [TRANSLATION] Above: KTU members block the police and National Intelligence Service (NIS) search & seizure of KTU office in Chuncheon City, Gangwon Province, 2023-5-23, Yonhap News Mr....

Categories Information Operations/Intelligence/North Korea/Spy/Subversion/Translation of Korean News

March 20, 2023

What are North Korea’s Instructions to Spies? North Korea-instructed Slogans Appear in Demonstrations in South Korea

2023-3-20, Tara O Various spy rings have been uncovered in South Korea, including those in the Changwon, Chungju, Jeju, and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) (aka Minju NoChong). ...

Categories Espionage/Information Operations/Intelligence/National Security/Spy/Subversion

December 27, 2022

Chinese Restaurant Suspected of Being Chinese Police Station in Korea Connected to China’s State Media CCTV and Xinhua

2022-12-26, Tara O In a strange turn of events, the Chinese restaurant on the Han Gang (한강, Han River), Dongbang Myungjoo (동방명주), suspected to be a Chinese police station in...

Categories China/Influence Operations/Information Operations/Intelligence/Media/National Security/Police/Psychological Operations

June 6, 2022

Communist Spy Shin Young-bok of Subversive Revolutionary Organization Memorialized at South Korea’s Intelligence Agency, An Insult to NIS and the Republic of Korea

Tara O, 2022-6-6 Imagine a statue of Aldrich H. Ames at the entrance of the CIA.  Or a memorial of Robert Hanssen at the entrance of the FBI.  Does it...

Categories Espionage/Influence Operations/Information Operations/Intelligence/Moon Jae-in/National Security/Socialism/Spy/Subversion/Treason

May 3, 2022

Korea-U.S. Defense C4I Compromised, South Korean Captain and a Defense Contractor Arrested for Spying for North Korea

2022-5-3, Tara O A South Korean military officer and a defense contractor for IT systems were arrested for spying for North Korea in return for payments in crypto currency.  They...

Categories Defense/Espionage/Information Operations/Intelligence/Military/National Security/Spy

July 8, 2020

North Korea’s Terminology Deception Tactics: The Word “Democracy” as Explained by Former Public Security Prosecutor Koh Young-ju

2020-7-8, Tara O North Korea and those in South Korea pursuing socialism/communism have been using “Terminology Deception Tactics” (1) (용어 혼란 전술), part of Psychological Operations, to create confusion and...

Categories Communism/Influence Operations/Information Operations/Propaganda/Psychological Operations/Socialism/South Korea