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From Lovely North Korean agents undergo special sex training (Tokyo Reporter):

“After Kim Jong Il assumed power he began a program of ’sex training’ for spies, using agents from China and the former Soviet Union as instructors,” Terence Lee, a risk management consultant, tells Shukan Taishu. “One of the students was Kim Hyonhi, the agent captured alive in connection with the bombing of a Korean Airlines passenger jet. It’s been said the training curriculum that agents underwent surpassed all imagination.”

Such training may have included legendary ancient Chinese bedroom methods that, if applied correctly, might cause the object of seduction to suffer heart failure.
“I don’t know if they succeeded or not, but they actually tested this,” Lee asserts, adding that female Korean agents were put to work at a brothel in Romania to polish their techniques, as well as develop “fortitude” as sex objects, so that they would not feel aroused.

The story has become relevant due to the arrest of Won Jong-hwa (not pictured above), a 34-year-old North Korean arrested the end of August by South Korean security forces on charges of espionage. According to the article Won was an operative involved in the abduction of South Koreans and defectors from North Korea. In 2001 she gained entry into South Korea through marriage. Later, via a sexual relationship with an officer in the Korean armed forces, was able to steal military secrets. She also obtained a list of people who had defected from North Korea.

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