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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaUS Army intelligence analyst charged with selling classified military information to ChinaPublished44 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, CBSImage caption, Sgt Korbein Schultz was arrested at his base on ThursdayBy Max MatzaBBC NewsA US Army analyst has been arrested and charged with selling sensitive military secrets to a contact in China. Sgt Korbein Schultz was arrested on Thursday at Fort Campbell in Kentucky following an inquiry by the FBI and US Army counterintelligence. According to the charges, he was paid $42,000 (£33,000) in exchange for dozens of sensitive security records. Officials say the criminal conspiracy began in June 2022 and continued up until his arrest. Sgt Schultz is charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information, exporting technical data related to defence articles without a licence, conspiracy to export defence articles without a licence, and bribery of a public official.It is unclear if he has hired an attorney that can comment on the charges against him.”The conduct alleged in today’s indictment represents a grave betrayal of the oath sworn to defend our country,” said Larissa Knapp of the FBI’s National Security Branch. “Instead of safeguarding national defence information, the defendant conspired with a foreign national to sell it, potentially endangering our national security.”The confidential documents were provided to a contact that the defendant believed to be living in Hong Kong, officials say. Some of the information he allegedly provided related to hypersonic equipment, studies on the future development of US military forces, and a document on China’s military preparedness.The justice department charging documents do not name the Chinese government as implicated in the scheme, or identify the contact who paid him.The indictment said he was instructed to transmit “original and exclusive documents” to his contact. The intelligence he provided includes information related to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the “operability of sensitive US military systems and their capabilities”.It also included US plans regarding Taiwan in the event it should come under attack.Messages sent by Sgt Schultz include one where he says he “wished he could be ‘Jason Bourne’,” the indictment says, in reference to the fictional spy character. After being promised more money from his handler, he said in another message: “I hope so! I need to get my other BMW back!”Earlier this week, investigators arrested an retired US Army colonel in Nebraska who is accused of sending classified information to a person through a foreign dating website.The arrest of the retired colonel came just hours after a US airman from the Massachusetts Air National Guard pleaded guilty to six counts of illegally retaining and transmitting national defence information.Ex-colonel accused of US leaks on dating websiteUS airman pleads guilty to Pentagon documents leakRelated TopicsSpyingUnited StatesMore on this storyEx-colonel accused of US leaks on dating websitePublished2 days agoUS airman pleads guilty to Pentagon documents leakPublished3 days agoTop StoriesLive. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityAsiaChinaIndiaImages show North Korea sealing its border with ChinaPublished4 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, There has been a major ramping up of security along the border between North Korea and China. This image shows North Korea from an area near the Chinese border city of Hunchun in 2015By Michael Sheils McNameeBBC NewsNorth Korea has used the Covid-19 pandemic to seal up its northern border with China, new images from a leading human rights group show. Human Rights Watch (HRW) describes a situation which has seen “intensifying repression”, with “drastically reduced” cross-border movement and trade. In the research, North Koreans spoke of the increasingly restrictive measures.UN member states should “immediately address” North Korea’s isolation and humanitarian crisis, HRW stresses.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reinforced a crackdown on border security in recent years, coinciding with the pandemic.The border was only reopened a few months ago, largely to improve trade with China.The report, entitled A Sense of Terror Stronger than a Bullet: The Closing of North Korea 2018-2023, describes the “overbroad, excessive, and unnecessary measures during the Covid-19 pandemic”. North Korea country profileFocusing on satellite images, it shows authorities in North Korea constructing 482km (299 miles) of new fencing in the areas it investigated, and enhancing another 260km of fencing which was already in place. Taken between 2019 and 2023 and covering about a quarter of its northern border, the images also detail things like new guard posts and the creation of buffer zones – things which further restrict life in the country. Image caption, In this image, we can see that in March 2019, on the east bank of the Tumen River, a primary fence is visible – but is interrupted with a large gap for the Hoeryong stream. Three years later, in April 2022, a bridge had been added, along with a secondary fence, creating a buffer zoneAlong with the border infrastructure has come a more authoritarian enforcement of rules – including a shoot on sight order for border guards. HRW noted a 20-fold increase in the number of border security facilities in the area observed, with guard posts rising from just 38 to more than 6,500. Lina Yoon, senior Korea researcher at HRW, said North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un should “end the policies that have essentially made North Korea a giant prison, reopen its borders for trade, relax internal travel restrictions, and allow monitored international emergency assistance”. One escapee, who spoke to her relative back home, said rice and wheat could no longer be smuggled into the country. “Not even an ant can make it across the border now”, her relative told her. This has also made it harder for North Korean escapees to send money back home to support their families, the report says, further increasing the suffering of the North Korean people.A family’s escape from North Korea through a minefield and stormy seasAnother person who had left the country described the situation for their relatives in late 2022, when many parts of the world were facing tough Covid-19 restrictions.”My [relative] said now people are more worried of starving to death than of dying of Covid-19,” they said. “They are all worried of dying from simple diseases.”The crackdown has also stopped the flow of cash from people in South Korea to their relatives and contacts in the North.HRW estimated that by the start of 2023, only about one in 10 money brokers were able to send money across, when compared to the situation pre-pandemic. Also highlighted in the report is the toll UN sanctions, imposed on Pyongyang in 2017 following nuclear tests, have had on people. The report calls them “broad-based”, and says they have “exacted a toll on the population at large by undermining people’s rights to an adequate standard of living, and thus to food and health”. “This had an especially hard impact on women, the main breadwinners in most households, by reducing the activities in the markets in which they traded.” One former trader who had been in contact with relatives in North Korea said a relative used to catch squid and crabs, and was able to live off the informal trade with China. Because of Covid-19 and the sanctions, this trade was stopped – and his relatives had to sell for domestic consumptions for a much lower return, making it “hard to survive”. 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