US State Department expert to plead guilty to passing classified information in leak case
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government says a State Department expert on North Korea has pleaded guilty to passing classified information to a journalist.
The Justice Department says that under a plea agreement, Stephen Kim faces a 13-month prison term for making an unauthorized disclosure of national defence information.
The criminal case relates to a June 2009 news story by Fox News journalist James Rosen. Rosen reported that U.S. intelligence officials warned the president and senior U.S. officials that North Korea would respond to a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning nuclear tests with another nuclear test.
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