S. Korean man arrested for contacting N. Korean agent

SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean man has been arrested for contacting a
North Korean spy in Indonesia in violation of the country's anti-communist
National Security Law, prosecutors said Friday.
The man, identified only by his family name Kim, allegedly contacted a North
Korean spy and handed over a South Korean passport of his friend's, a detailed
South Korean map and other sensitive materials over a period of three years,
beginning in 2005, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said.
The 45-year-old Kim, who had served as a marine, also gave the agent his access
information for some veterans' Web sites and emailed news articles on the
inter-Korean summit and North Korean nuclear crisis in 2007, investigators said.
Kim is reported to have once worked for an inter-Korean joint-venture company in
Jakarta from 1993, and was first introduced to the North's diplomat stationed
there in 1997, prosecutors said.
The security law prohibits South Koreans from contacting North Koreans without
government approval and punishes activities benefiting the communist North.
ejkim@yna.co.kr
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