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SEOUL - A NORTH Korean spy who used sex to secure military secrets has decided not to appeal her five-year jail sentence, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
Won Jeong-Hwa, 35, who had come to South Korea in the guise of a defector, was found guilty of espionage and violating security laws, and sentenced last week.
'She decided not to lodge an appeal, concerned about the attention of the media when she stands before the court again,' defence lawyer Lee Sang-Hoon told Yonhap news agency.
The lawyer added his client also expected the appeals court to uphold the lower court's decision given previous similar cases.
The sensational sex-for-secrets case came to light in Aug when investigators announced the arrest of Won and her stepfather Kim Dong-Sun who was also charged with spying.
Won had fled to northeast China after committing a theft in the North but returned home and in 1998 became a spy for Pyongyang's espionage agency.
In 2001 she entered South Korea and was tasked by Seoul's spy agency with touring military units to give anti-communist lectures. She used the occasions to contact army officers.
During her trial she expressed remorse and renounced her hardline communist homeland. -- AFP
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