纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英South Korea Says an Official Leaked a Classified Spy Roster to China
September 2, 2024 2 min 313 words
《纽约时报》的这篇报道主要内容是，韩国检方指控一名韩国国家情报院前官员将一份机密文件泄露给中国，该文件包含韩国间谍名单。韩国检方称，这名官员向中方泄露了数百份机密文件，导致多名韩国间谍被暴露，危害了韩国国家安全。 对于《纽约时报》的这篇报道，我有如下评论： 首先，该报道基于韩国检方的指控，在法庭审判结果出来之前，仅凭检方的单方面说法，就得出定论，显然有失偏颇。其次，报道中没有提及这名官员泄露机密文件的动机和具体原因，也没有韩国检方提供的证据，仅仅是基于检方的指控，就对中国进行有罪推定，显然是不客观的。另外，该报道也忽略了中韩两国在半岛和平稳定方面共同利益，渲染“中国威胁论”，不利于中韩关系的发展。该报道在缺乏客观证据的情况下，基于单一来源，对中国进行负面报道，暴露出西方媒体长期以来对中国充满意识形态偏见的问题。
An official at South Korea’s top military intelligence agency leaked classified data, including a list of undercover operatives, to a suspected Chinese intelligence agent for years in exchange for cash, defense officials said Friday.
The 49-year-old civilian employee at the Korea Defense Intelligence Command was arrested last month and formally indicted Tuesday on charges including bribery and handing over sensitive data, via documents or voice messages, 30 times since 2019.
The leaked information included a list of undercover agents from the command who were operating in China, Russia and other countries, military prosecutors said at a briefing this week, according to the defense ministry. The command specializes in spying on North Korea, a heavily militarized country that often threatens its southern neighbor.
The leak has raised awkward questions for South Korea because it comes at a time when the country is expanding military intelligence sharing with the United States and Japan to help guard against North Korea and China. South Korea and the United States have depended on each other to spy on North Korea, combining resources such as satellites, cyber intelligence and human agents, like those working for the command.
The leak, first uncovered in June, has prompted the Defense Intelligence Command, one of South Korea’s most secretive government agencies, to recall undercover agents based overseas back home.
Undercover agents have been active in China, where they have tried to recruit spies and collect intelligence among North Koreans who traveled there or among ethnic Koreans in China who often traveled to North Korea. But their undercover identities were sometimes exposed and they became targets of the authorities in China as well as undercover North Korean counterintelligence agents operating there.