NK Cracks Spy Ring

So are they spies or just DVD pirates

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea’s intelligence agency has arrested some of the country’s own citizens and a foreigner for spying, the official news agency said Wednesday.

The Ministry of State Security alleged that an unnamed foreign spy agency had hired the North Koreans to carry out espionage on major military facilities and strategic locations within the country, the Korean Central News Agency said.

At a news conference announcing the arrests, the ministry played a video showing written pledges it said the North Koreans had made to the foreign intelligence agency, KCNA said.

China’s official Xinhua news agency, which also reported on Wednesday’s news conference, said the video footage appeared to show captured spy equipment, including a fake rock containing a satellite communications gadget, a bugging device in a flowerpot and various cameras.

The alleged spies were assigned to obtain the coordinates of a military installation using a global positioning device and to pass along state and military secrets, the ministry said, according to KCNA. They also tried to lure senior officials to leave their homeland by fomenting “illusion about the free world,'’ it said.

Who knows. Considering that NK arrests citizen all the time for just about everything this could be big. Or, it could just be propaganda piece to keep the people in tow.