North Korea today handed down life sentences of hard labor to two South Korean nationals accused of spying, according to Yonhap News Agency.

Announced on the DPRK’s Central Broadcasting radio system, the two South Korean nationals were charged with working for South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).

“The North’s supreme court held a court session for the two South Koreans who were arrested for suspected spying for the United States and the South … Kim and Choe were sentenced to hard labor for life on charges of spying” the radio broadcast said, in a translation from Yonhap.

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