North Korea sent female agents to sleep with foreign dignitaries, then blackmailed them, former insider alleges

SEOUL – North Korea has blackmailed dozens, if not hundreds, of politicians, journalists and businessmen after seducing them with female agents, a former elite North Korean politician has claimed. In a scheme called “the seed-bearing programme,” high-level foreign visitors to Pyongyang would be sent an attractive consort, only to find out several months later that they…