Category: Intelligence

July 12, 2022

Intelligence on the Civil Servant Killed by North Korea Deleted from Defense Ministry’s Network, the 2 Defectors Sent back to North Korea After the Blue House Abruptly Halted Investigation, Former Intelligence Chiefs Park Ji-won, Suh Hoon, Others Charged

2022-7-12, Tara O On July 6, 2022, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) filed criminal charges against Park Ji-won and Suh Hoon, NIS directors in the Moon Jae-in administration, for violating...

Categories Abuse of Authority/Defectors/Dictatorship/Human Rights/Intelligence/Moon Jae-in/North Korea

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

December 18, 2020

South Korea Cannot Catch North Korean Spies Without Article 7 of the National Security Act

2020-12-16, PenNMike TV [Translation] When the abolition of the National Security Act, a long-awaited project of the left, is completed, spy prosecution is impossible (0:07) Anchor Choi Dae-hyun:  Lawyer Koh...

Categories Intelligence/Lawfare/National Security/North Korea/South Korea/Translation of Korean News/Treason

December 11, 2020

Intelligence Special Activities Fund Increasing While NIS Core Function is Neutralized, Park Geun-hye Unjustly Jailed for the Fund, while Moon’s Blue House Continues to Receive the Fund

2020-12-11, Tara O NIS Budget Increasing Despite the expected removal of core capabilities from the National Intelligence Service (NIS, South Korea’s CIA), the NIS budget is actually increasing.  In 2020,...

Categories Budget/Human Rights/Intelligence/Moon Jae-in/Purge/Rule of Law/South Korea

December 3, 2020

The Ruling Party Destroys South Korea’s Capability to Catch North Korean Spies, Bills Blazing Through Legislature to Take Away Intelligence Agency’s Core Capability, Abolish the National Security Law

2020-12-3, Tara O South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in and his party have long pushed for dismantling South Korea’s capability to catch North Korean spies and agents.  They are close to...

Categories Abuse of Authority/Election Fraud/Espionage/Intelligence/Lawfare/National Security/North Korea/Purge/Socialism/South Korea/Spy/Subversion/Treason

October 7, 2020

Huawei’s Chips Banned by the U.S. in South Korean Defense Ministry’s 40,000 Smart Speakers, Ministry “Didn’t Know”

2020-10-5, TV Chosun [TRANSLATION] From now on, I will focus on our exclusive report that China’s Huawei semiconductor chips, which the U.S. banned for security reasons, has been installed inside...

Categories China/Espionage/Intelligence/Military/National Security/South Korea/Translation of Korean News

September 19, 2020

South Korea’s NIS (National Intelligence Service) to be Renamed ISIS? Capability to Catch North Korean Spies to Disappear

2020-9-19, Tara O On July 30, 2020, the Moon Jae-in administration and the Democratic Party of Korea (Deobureo Minjoo Party) held a party-government-Blue House discussion (당정청협의) on the “reform of...

Categories Espionage/Intelligence/Lawfare/National Security

August 4, 2020

Document Agreeing to Transfer $3 Billion to North Korea Emerged at South Korea’s Spy Agency Head Nominee Park Jie-won’s Hearing

2020-8-4, Tara O Park Jie-won (박지원) was appointed as the Director of the National Intelligence Service on July 28, 2020 by Moon Jae-in, the day after his hearing on July...

Categories Espionage/Intelligence/North Korea/South Korea