"cc" <cpasuneadresse@spam.com> wrote in message news:<cd5kan$1b3$2@bgsv5648.tk.mesh.ad.jp>...
> "Rodney Webster" <rgw_news001@knot.mine.nu> wrote in message
> 
> > The Japanese are said to have worked for the North Korean secret
> > service,
> 
> That's being a spy.

Actually that's being an employee for an intelligence gathering
agency. If they aren't actively involved in the gathering of that
intelligence, they're not spies. I got the impression that they did a
lot of teaching and translating stuff, not actual spying. Analysts at
best.

John W.