South Korean authorities are investigating multiple civil organizations for allegedly working with North Korean agents to conduct covert intelligence operations in the South, ruling People Power Party (PPP) politicians stated Wednesday. 

In a statement on social media, lawmaker Tae Yong-ho said the National Intelligence Service (NIS) “has been investigating allegations of espionage, with officials from South Korea’s progressive political parties meeting with North Korean agents to establish an underground organization.”

On the same day, lawmaker Ahn Cheol-soo statedon his own social media channel that a ROK “spy cell” on Jeju island used encrypted communications to communicate with North Korean