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North Korea Hostage Details His CIA Work and Torture
NORTH KOREA HOSTAGE FREED BY TRUMP DETAILS HIS CIA WORK AND TORTURE IN PRISON CAMP: 'I BECAME A TRAITOR OVERNIGHT'
BY DAVID BRENNAN ON 7/29/19 AT 7:30 AM EDT Newsweek
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.
Speaking with NK News, 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.
Kim—who once lived in Virginia but was living in China before his arrest—was one of three U.S. citizens released in a 2018 amnesty secured in negotiations between the Trump administration and Kim Jong Un's regime, amid an unexpected thaw in relations between the long-time adversaries.
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.
Speaking with NK News, 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.
Kim—who once lived in Virginia but was living in China before his arrest—was one of three U.S. citizens released in a 2018 amnesty secured in negotiations between the Trump administration and Kim Jong Un's regime, amid an unexpected thaw in relations between the long-time adversaries.
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.
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https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-hostage-freed-trump-details-his-cia-work-torture-prison-camp-i-became-traitor-1451530
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