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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
South Korean prosecutors unveiled full charges against trade union leaders accused of spying for North Korea on Thursday, describing a “movie-like” scheme that allegedly featured secretive meetings with DPRK operatives abroad and encrypted communications in YouTube comments sections.
The Suwon District Prosecutors Office said four members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) were indicted on Wednesday on charges of espionage, communicating and meeting with North Korean spies and other violations of the National Security Act.