Britain's spies tried to recruit an agent in North Korea who could provide top-secret information on its fledgling nuclear programme, leaked intelligence documents have revealed. MI6 wanted details about the dictatorship’s plans in a ‘long-term relationship in return for payment’. The sensitive revelation emerged from a cache of hundreds of secret documents that were leaked to media organisations and published last night. Asking for help: MI6 tried to recruit a North Korean agent, meeting the insider for two hours, this cable shows The electronic files, handed to the Al Jazeera news agency, could cause embarrassment to Britain and other governments in the wake of the revelations two years ago by Edward Snowden.
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MI6 had 2-hour meeting with North Korean 'target' and offered payment
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Undated cable asked South African spies for help with 'joint operation'
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Detail emerged in huge cache of leaked cables from Mossad, MI6 and CIA
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Another showed Israeli spies contracted  own PM on Iran's nuclear plans
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Netanyahu said Iran was close to a bomb - but spies said country wasn't
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Obama is also said to have 'threatened' Palestine's bid for UN statehood
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Israeli spies appeared to contradict their own prime minister's dramatic claim that Iran was close to having a nuclear bomb
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South Korean intelligence targeted the leader of Greenpeace
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South African agents spied on Russia over a £65million joint satellite deal
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British  officials helped block the sale of equipment by a South African company to Iran
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Barack Obama 'threatened' Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas over his bid to win formal statehood for Palestine
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The case of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, contradicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came after he made a theatrical 2012 speech to the @placeholder.
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