Kim Dong Chul was one of three American citizens released from North Korean prisons and returned to the U.S. in 2018.
An American citizen whose release was secured by President Donald Trump has detailed his experiences in a North Korean prison camp after getting caught spying for the CIA and the South Korean intelligence service., Kim Dong Chul said he spied for the CIA for around six years before being caught and sent to a labor camp, where he suffered torture at the hands of his North Korean guards.three U.S.
Kim confessed to spying at a press conference held soon after his arrest. North Korean media said the businessman was detained while"perpetrating... state subversive plots and espionage against" the secretive nation. At his press conference, Kim admitted to supplying the South's National Intelligence Agency with sensitive information.
The businessman described the information as"very significant," and explained how he"filmed footage with a watch [equipped with a camera] and used electromagnetic wave wiretapping equipment." Kim said he was asked to behave as an"antenna" in North Korea. His last mission was to investigate a suspicious vessel at the Rajin port, identified as of interest to the CIA after being spotted on satellite images. The agency asked Kim"to take very close-up photos of it and figure out what it was being used for." Kim delivered the information prior to being arrested in 2015.
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