CNN has published a video of the arrest of spy North Korea in Ukraine

TV channel CNN опубликовал video recording, which shows the arrest of two spies of the DPRK by officers of the Ukrainian special services in 2011 year.

The citizens of North Korea tried to kidnap what they believed was top-secret missile data.

Two North Korean diplomats were arrested by SBU officers in July 2011 in one of the garages of Dnepr (then Dnepropetrovsk) red-handed - while photographing documents classified as “secret”. A year later, each of them was sentenced to eight years in prison.

The video, the materials for which were provided to the television channel by the special services of Ukraine, shows how three men enter the garage, two of whom are starting to photograph documents. After some time, spies are detained by the SBU.

Close up on the video are the documents that turned out to be a trumped-up compilation, and the passports of the diplomats.

The video was conveyed to journalists by the Ukrainian special services, who thus try to prove that Ukraine’s suspicions that the DPRK received rocket engines from it are completely unfounded.

Recall 14 August edition The New York Times, With reference to the findings of the missile specialist of the International Institute for Strategic Studies voiced speculationthat the DPRK could get Ukrainian engines for ballistic missiles through the black market.

An officer of the Security Service of Ukraine, who worked on the operation to detain the North Koreans in 2011, and who asked for anonymity because of his operational role, expressed confidence that the DPRK could not receive any secret data from Ukraine, since all espionage attempts were intercepted.

He said that in 2011, two other North Korean citizens who arrived in Ukraine from the embassy in Russia were deported after they were caught trying to obtain “missile ammunition, particularly for air-to-air missiles.” A third North Korean citizen was also deported, whose task was to transport ammunition obtained by the first two spies from Ukraine.

“In 2015, five more North Korean citizens were deported from Ukraine for facilitating North Korean intelligence work in Ukraine,” the officer said, without providing details.

He said that, in addition to two people in prison, not a single citizen of North Korea remained in Ukraine, since those who were not deported by Kiev were voluntarily withdrawn DPRK - many worked in alternative medicine centers.

The journalists of the channel met with the convicted citizens of the DPRK, who are being held in Zhytomyr prison. One of them denies his guilt, the other only partially recognized it. Their prison term expires in September 2018.

The eldest prisoner is a man in his fifties originally from Pyongyang who was listed in court documents as X5. He speaks Russian with a slight accent.

X5 said that he would like to return to North Korea, but did not speak with his family or anyone else from the DPRK since his arrest.

“I’m serving my sentence, they feed us well, we work... I don’t want to give an interview to maintain my safety and the safety of my family,” he said.

X5 partially admitted his guilt.

His junior co-conspirator is a technical expert known in court documents as X32.

During the investigation, he claimed that he was acting as a sales representative at the North Korean embassy in Belarus only to organize training in missile technology for North Korean experts; he did not think that this knowledge was secret. He even tried to attract one Ukrainian expert to travel to North Korea to teach there.

X32 agreed to meet with CNN, but refused to interview, he saw the camera, he closed the lens with his hand and left. He refuses to admit his guilt.

Denis Chernyshov, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, said that the prisoners once met with two officials from the North Korean embassy in Moscow, but more than that since their arrest they had no contact with their homeland.

They requested extradition to North Korea, but were refused because they were detained for spying for this country.

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