SEOUL, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- South Korea has caught a Northern spy and would-be assassin posing as a defector, its intelligence agency said Wednesday.
Ri Dong-sam, 46, was arrested by the Seoul city prosecutor Tuesday for plotting to assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, a leading ideologue of the Pyongyang regime and onetime mentor to dictator Kim Jong-il who had defected to the South, officials told The New York Times.