“A senior Korean military commander has been arrested on suspicion of leaking the South’s military defense plans to Kim Jong Il’s regime,” reports The Australian. “The major general, identified only as Kim, arrested by military authorities yesterday, faces charges of supplying confidential information to North Korea.”
This is a bizarre “false-flag” leak case that illustrates one of the dangers of passing along classified information to those not authorized to receive it. Kim, the alleged perpetrator here, evidently supplied sensitive war plans to Park Chae-seo, an old friend from his military academy days. Unbeknownst to him—or so Kim says—Park was a rogue agent in the pay of North Korea, and was himself arrested on espionage charges last week.
