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
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.Cho, along with his wife and their daughter, are citizens of South Korea. After arriving in Canada in 2012, the family sought refugee protection.
The truth, he said, was that he is an international spy and has a well-founded fear of persecution at the hands of a mysterious spymaster, known only as “Mr. Kim” of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, that country’s equivalent of the U.S.’s Central Intelligence Agency. Cho said that Mr. Kim then told him the only way to redeem himself and prove his loyalty was to go back into North Korea and damage a statue of Kim Il Sung, the revered founder of North Korea who ruled for 46 years and is the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong Un.
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