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LEE v. DONG-A ILBO

No. 87-2578.

849 F.2d 876 (1988)

Chang-Sin LEE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The DONG-A ILBO; Joong-Ang Ilbo; Cho-Sun Ilbo; The Korea Herald; Central Virginia Educational Television Corporation; The Sae Gae Shinbo, Inc.; The Korea Times, a/k/a Han-Kook Ilbo, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Marc Schneebaum (Jonathan N. Halpern, Patton, Boggs & Blow, Washington, D.C., Larry Garber, Intern. Human Rights Group, on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas John Cawley (Stephen M. Sayers, Hunton & Williams, Fairfax, Va., on brief), Jack G. McKay, Alexandria, Va. (Keh Soo Park, Arlington, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before MURNAGHAN and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, and KAUFMAN, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

On September 9, 1985, two intelligence agencies of the South Korean government issued a sixty-two page "press release" announcing the disruption of two North Korean spy rings operating in the United States and West Germany. In Virginia, the defendants, six newspapers and one public television station, reported the announcement, essentially by repeating the story as reported in the Korean press. Plaintiff Chang-Sin Lee, a South Korean citizen...

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