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2 Former Chinese Soldiers Indicted for Leaking Secrets From Korean, US Military

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PYEONGTAEK — Two former Chinese soldiers have been indicted on charges of leaking secrets from the Korean military and the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK)...

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The Pyeongtaek Branch of the Prosecutors' Office has arrested and indicted two Chinese nationals with backgrounds in wiretapping and special forces units on charges of general treason. The former members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army are accused of engaging in "treasonous" activities, such as eavesdropping on radio communications while patrolling the vicinity of South Korean and U.S. military bases and leaking classified information re…

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Former members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have been arrested on charges of wiretapping communications at major military bases in South Korea and co-opting U.S. Forces Korea to leak military secrets to China. This suggests that South Korea is a primary target for Chinese intelligence and, coupled with a series of recent incidents involving Chinese nationals unauthorized filming and wiretapping of military facilities, exposes vulnerab…

Two former soldiers who served in the Chinese military in South Korea have been charged with leaking military information from South Korea and the United States. According to the indictment of the Suwon Prosecutor's Office, one suspect was charged with smuggling 13.9 terabytes of data into China and the other with stealing joint drill data 12 times.

It was revealed on the 28th that a Chinese national in his 60s, identified as Defendant A, who was indicted in September on suspicion of eavesdropping on communications between South Korean and US fighter pilots and air traffic control towers in South Korea since 2024, is a former officer of the Chinese People's Liberation Army's communications interception unit. Defendant A served for 40 years in the communications interception unit of the Gene…

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조선일보 broke the news on Monday, September 28, 2026.
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