A man claiming to be a spy for South Korea’s intelligence agency who fled to Canada instead of accepting a dangerous mission to slip into North Korea to deface a statue of leader Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, has been ordered deported. Canada’s immigration authorities didn’t believe Kwoon Woo Cho’s strange tales of travelling to China and North Korea, spying on the Hermit Kingdom’s military capabilities. Cho, along with his wife and their daughter, are citizens of South Korea. When Cho first applied for asylum, he said he was a North Korean who worked in a mine close to North Korea’s border with China. Cho said he worked as a spy for the NIS, which has a mandate for North Korean intelligence gathering, and would go to China and North Korea to obtain information about the North Korean army.

Source: National Post April 17, 2019 14:44 UTC