5 SKoreans indicted over espionage
Prosecutors in Seoul have indicted five South Koreans for allegedly spying for North Korea.
Seoul prosecutors said on Thursday that the five allegedly passed military secrets and other sensitive information to North Korea beginning in the early 1990s.
Prosecutors say that among the funneled information were satellite photos of military bases in South Korea, US military field manuals and information on South Korean politicians.
Prosecutors say the five allegedly violated South Korea’s National Security Law, whose maximum penalty is capital punishment.
The two Koreas are still technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.