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South Korean ex-spy reveals toll of secret missions to North: ‘treated as expendable’

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In 1984, 24-year-old Ha Tae-jun responded to an enigmatic recruitment notice scrawled on a wall at the Military Manpower Administration office in Seoul's Yongsan district.

Ha applied for the special unit, unaware that it would involve secret missions to North Korea. His enlistment ultimately changed his life forever, as revealed in his account of the heavy toll exacted by these operations.

The former operative disclosed that personnel engaged in these clandestine missions were treated as expendable.

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