Tags:dirty bidness, espionage, korea, spy
When you’re a hot female spy, you can always rely on good ol’ sex appeal to get the job done - a lesson apparently not lost on 34-year-old Won Jeong-hwa, a North-Korean refugee who turned out to be an enemy agent.
According to prosecutors, Won confessed that she was a trained North Korean spy.
Originally, the suspect fled the North after stealing tons of zinc, which is a capital crime there. Won returned to the North in 1998 after hiding in northeastern China for years and later became a spy for North Korea’s National Security Agency, they said.
Her mission ― based in China ― was to kidnap defectors there for repatriation.
She later pretended to be an ethnic Korean Chinese woman and married a South Korean factory worker before coming to the South in 2001.
After her arrival, she reported herself as a North Korean defector and worked as a lecturer on anti-communism at military camps nationwide.
According to investigators, she maintained romantic relations with three to four officers and even shared an apartment with an Army First Lieutenant Hwang. The 27-year-old Hwang reportedly suspected that his partner was a spy, but ignored the fact and handed her classified military information.


