It will be interesting to see how many years in prison someone who spies for North Korea and hunts down defectors gets:

A South Korean man was Monday arrested on charges of hunting North Korean defectors in China and sending them back to their communist homeland at the instruction of Pyongyang.

The Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office said that the man, identified only by his surname Kim, is also accused of collecting information on people helping North Korean defectors as well as military information for the North.

The 55-year-old was won over by a North Korean agent while staying illegally in China in the late 1990s, visited Pyongyang in 2000 for spy training, and was dispatched back to China as an agent hunting defectors, prosecutors said.

Kim recently returned to South Korea after an accomplice was arrested by Chinese police and jailed. Prosecutors took him into custody upon arrival.  [Korea Times]

There is of course a lot of Kim’s in Korea, but I wonder if the Kim that was arrested the same guide Kim Seong-cheol that led American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee to the Tumen River where they crossed and were captured?