Asia Times Online :: China News - A South Korean reporter's confession:
"BEIJING - Last year a Beijing-based South Korean journalist, Park Ki-sung, scored a major 'scoop' when he reported for the Yonhap News Agency that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, was paying a 'secret' - though afterward Park revealed it was not quite so secret - state visit to China.
Beijing authorities do not take lightly reports of 'state secrets', especially when they involve a visit by their neighboring socialist leader who, if anything, is more secretive in his movements than China's leaders. They suspected a 'leak' and arrested the former Chinese ambassador to South Korea, Li Bin.
Now the Korean journalist has taken the unusual step of publicly denying that Li Bin was his source for the story in the hopes that it will lead to his release. Li remains in police custody for leaking state secrets."
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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