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Professor admits he spied for North Korea
July 22, 1996
Web posted at: 1:00 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT)SEOUL (CNN) -- A history professor in South Korea who had said he was Filipino admitted Monday he was North Korean -- and a spy.
Mohamad Ali Kanso, whose real name was Chung Su-il, was arrested earlier this month at a Seoul hotel, where he was allegedly faxing information to a North Korean agent about South Korea's deployment of Apache helicopters and weapons testing.
South Korean officials said he had wives in both countries, and had hid his true identity even from the South Korean woman he married eight years ago. They displayed items allegedly confiscated from him, including poisoned needles and a code book.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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