SEOUL, Oct 15th - South Korean courts ruled against a secret agent for extracting military secrets from top officials in return for sexual favors. She has been sentenced to prison for five years, officials reported.
Won Jeong-hwa, 34, was arrested one month ago after falling under suspicion of being a pro-Pyongyang defector. She posed as a defector willing to give the locations of top secret military sites in return for sexual favors. Her mission was to infiltrate South Koreas military and assasinate key figures. Won was trained by the North Korean Commandos to take out her targets with toxic chemicals.
The spy who faced life in prison pleaded to the court that they let her return to see her 7-year-old daughter who she had with a business man in China. Prosecutors portrayed Won in a different light saying she wasn't the meek woman she claimed to be. Pictures showed revealed her scars from commando training.
The North's media despises her for leaving the country calling her "human scum crazy for money, vanity and swindling."
But despite the sensational details of attempts to subvert South Korean society and the defectors' community, Won's mission went largely unaccomplished, according to media reports.