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In South Korea the summer of 2024 has been marked by a series of spy scandals, which vividly illustrate a number of the country’s domestic and foreign policy problems. In this article we will look at a scandal involving the US and South Korean intelligence agencies. On July 16, 2024, the US federal prosecutor’s office has charged Sue Mi Terry, a prominent US expert on North Korea and a former CIA officer and analyst, with acting on behalf of the South Korea and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). She was arrested but was released on $500,000 bail the same day.

America’s CIA, the FBI, and other powerful agencies of the U.S. have been under fire recently for a range of questionable, even illegal, in some cases, being undertaken both inside and outside America’s borders. For example, the release of the so-called “Twitter files” seems to prove massive interference in social media from what’s come...