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On December 3 last year, it was revealed that a Chinese national arrested during a joint Korea-U.S. operation on suspicion of meddling in domestic elections is being detained in Naha, Okinawa, by U.S. intelligence authorities.
This follows the transfer of an individual involved in U.S. election manipulation through a U.S. military base in Japan to the U.S. mainland.
In response to this report, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) under the Biden administration stated, “This is fake news.” However, the USFK neither participated in the operation nor is in a position to confirm classified details.
Recently inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump views China as the orchestrator of an international election fraud cartel that interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to secure Biden’s victory. As of last December, it is presumed that the Korea-U.S. joint operation involving Trump’s team shared no information with the Biden administration.
Meanwhile, a Chinese spy suspect arrested at the Election Training Institute in Suwon confessed during interrogation by U.S. intelligence authorities to having interfered not only in elections in Korea and the U.S. but also in orchestrating comment manipulation in Korea.
Specifically, it was revealed that the Chinese suspect developed and applied a macro system known as "Project Wooden Man," an advanced AI-trained program designed to post comments indistinguishable from those written by humans.
Furthermore, it was discovered that these suspects had entered Korea under the guise of foreign trainees, switching out every six months. Some reportedly received unemployment benefits after stepping away from their operations, further fueling public outrage.
Despite the arrests and extradition of its nationals, the Chinese government has yet to issue an official statement on the matter.
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