TOKYO, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Japan's police have arrested an ethnic Korean engineer on suspicion of transferring advanced technologies to Pyongyang, a Tokyo daily said Monday.
So Sok Hong, 74, former president of Kawasaki-based staffing company Taiho Sangyo, was arrested on suspicion of dispatching workers without properly notifying the labor minister, the Asahi Shumbun said, citing Kanagawa police
So is also an adviser to the Korean Association of Science and Technology in Japan (Kwahyop), an organization under the umbrella of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chrongryon.
He is suspected of providing cutting-edge technologies to Pyongyang, the newspaper said. Japan has imposed a range of sanctions on North Korea following its nuclear and missile test last year.
