Appeals court acquits N. Korean defector of spying charges
Social affairsApr 25, 2014
Upholding a lower court ruling, a Seoul appeals court on Friday acquitted a North Korean defector of charges that he carried out espionage activities for Pyongyang.Yoo Woo-seong, the 34-year-old defector who formerly held a Chinese nationality in the communist regime, was at the center of a high-profile forgery case in which Seoul's main intelligence agency was found to have fabricated Chinese government documents to frame him. The Seoul High Court delivered a not-guilty verdict to Yoo, citing t