SEOUL: South Korea said a North Korean colonel in charge of spy operations had defected to the South, a rare move by such a senior military officer.
The army colonel had handled espionage targeting South Korea at the North’s General Bureau of Reconnaissance before arriving in Seoul last year, the South’s Yonhap news agency said.
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