nifty to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoEx-CIA analyst charged with spying for South Koreawww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down13
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minus-square@mlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish12•3 months agoThis is funny considering the state department has direct contacts within SK’s government who provide real-time info about the president’s conversation with his government members.
minus-squarecircuscriticlinkfedilinkEnglish19•3 months agoAllies spy on each other, it’s not unusual or shocking. Eventually she will be exchanged as part of some backroom deal, or in exchange for someone imprisoned in SK for providing information to the CIA.
minus-square@CanadaPluslinkEnglish10•edit-23 months agoAll countries spy on all other countries, generally speaking. Exceptions are usually going to be down to resource constraints, not principles. As an asset you still go to jail if you get caught. Or killed in potentially nasty ways, if it’s a less democratic country.
This is funny considering the state department has direct contacts within SK’s government who provide real-time info about the president’s conversation with his government members.
Allies spy on each other, it’s not unusual or shocking.
Eventually she will be exchanged as part of some backroom deal, or in exchange for someone imprisoned in SK for providing information to the CIA.
All countries spy on all other countries, generally speaking. Exceptions are usually going to be down to resource constraints, not principles.
As an asset you still go to jail if you get caught. Or killed in potentially nasty ways, if it’s a less democratic country.