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Obituary: Jeong Su-il, 91, Middle East Expert and North Korean Spy

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Photo: The fake passport of Jeong Su-il and Muhammad Kansu. Credit: Yonhap News.The complex history of Korea’s division contains many colorful characters with convoluted personal histories, but few can have been as remarkable as Jeong Su-il 정수일, who passed away on February 24, after spending much of his life posing as a Filipino muslim named Muhammad Kansu, a leading Middle East scholar in Seoul - while working as a North Korean spy.Jeong was bo…
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Obituary: Jeong Su-il, 91, Middle East Expert and North Korean Spy

Photo: The fake passport of Jeong Su-il and Muhammad Kansu. Credit: Yonhap News.The complex history of Korea’s division contains many colorful characters with convoluted personal histories, but few can have been as remarkable as Jeong Su-il 정수일, who passed away on February 24, after spending much of his life posing as a Filipino muslim named Muhammad Kansu, a leading Middle East scholar in Seoul - while working as a North Korean spy.Jeong was bo…

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