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A man claiming to be a spy for South Korea’s intelligence agency who fled to Canada instead of accepting a dangerous mission to slip into North Korea to deface a statue of leader Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, has been ordered deported.

Canada’s immigration authorities didn’t believe Kwoon Woo Cho’s strange tales of travelling to China and North Korea, spying on the Hermit Kingdom’s military capabilities.

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Cho, along with his wife and their daughter, are citizens of South Korea. After arriving in Canada in 2012, the family sought refugee protection.

Credibility is a problem.

When Cho first applied for asylum, he said he was a North Korean who worked in a mine close to North Korea’s border with China. He said he would sometimes sneak across the border into China to get food, but was caught and imprisoned.

After his release, he and his family escaped the oppressive regime by crossing into China and then flying from Beijing to Canada.