South Korean police just arrested two former Chinese military officers for spying on U.S.-South Korea military operations, and one suspect actually claimed intercepting fighter jet comms was just a "hobby."
How does a People’s Liberation Army veteran set up Software Defined Radio gear inside a hotel room less than 1 kilometer from Gunsan Air Base, eavesdrop on joint fighter pilots, and expect security teams to buy a cover story like that?
According to Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police, the espionage network ran deep across major Allied defense hubs. A second suspect, a 45-year-old ethnic Korean and ex-PLA special forces veteran, operated a military surplus store right outside the main gate of Camp Humphreys, the world’s largest overseas U.S. military installation. He spent years cultivating local contacts, allegedly bribing base workers to siphon sensitive data on Ulchi Freedom Shield war games, personnel rosters, and real-time weapons movements.
With nearly 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea to deter aggression, these arrests reveal how persistent gray-zone intelligence collection really is.
In 1994 I came from Lithuania to Israel.
My ancestors survived the genocide.
95% of Lithuanian Jews were murdered.
In 1997-1999 I served in IDF.
In 2026 people hate me because of it.
Almost every country has an army.
Yet only Jews, survivors of genocides, are hated for it.