Chinese student arrested for taking drone photos of ”US aircraft carrier carrying President Yoon” - South Korea

Chinese students studying abroad were arrested after they were caught illegally using a drone to photograph a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and other vessels that had arrived at a South Korean naval base for Japan-U.S.-South Korean military training.
The Busan National Police Agency has arrested Chinese student A on charges of general aid to the enemy and violation of the Military Base Law, and B on charges of
The suspects were arrested on suspicion of violating the Military Base Law. Suspect C was also arrested on suspicion of violating the Military Base Law.
The three are Chinese students studying at a university in Busan, and were arrested between March 2023 and June 2024.
He is accused of flying a drone near the Naval Operations Command in Nam-gu, Busan, and taking illegal photographs of the inside of the naval base and the US Navy aircraft carrier "Theodore Roosevelt" (100,000 ton class).
During this period, they took a total of 172 photos and 22 videos over nine different occasions and distributed them to Chinese social media. On June 25 last year, the three flew a drone over a field near the Naval Operations Command and took illegal photos.
While he was shadowing, he was caught by a patrolman and handed over to the police. That day, then-President Yoon Seok-yeol visited the USS Roosevelt. The USS Roosevelt was a joint Korean-Japanese, US-South Korean
The ship had arrived three days before to take part in the first multi-domain military exercise, "Freedom Edge." A police official said, "The ship has been illegally photographing U.S. and South Korean military bases and facilities for a long period of time, and has been photographing internationally.
"This is an act of unauthorized distribution in cyberspace and the transfer of military information to a foreign country," he said. "We have determined this to be a serious crime that threatens national security, and will actively cooperate with the Busan District Prosecutors' Office, the Busan branch of the National Intelligence Service, and the Counterintelligence Command."
and conducted an investigation."