South Korea has arrested a Taiwanese man for filming inside the country's intelligence agency. He becomes the third Taiwanese person held in South Korea this month for filming or photographing a sensitive location.
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00:00Police in Seoul have arrested a Taiwanese man for filming inside South Korea's National Intelligence Service building.
00:07South Korean authorities are now looking at the man's phone and deciding whether to issue a formal arrest warrant.
00:12The man is the third Taiwanese national that South Korean police have held this month for filming or taking pictures of sensitive sites.
00:19On May 12, two people were arrested for filming U.S. equipment at Osan Air Base.
00:24That was during an air show that both Taiwanese and Chinese citizens were explicitly banned from attending.
00:30The foreign ministry says it's giving assistance to the latest arrested citizen.
00:47South Korea has been on special alert after a string of Chinese citizens also caught filming sensitive places.