In China, they suspected of espionage of two Canadians holding a cafe on the border with the DPRK

China suspected a married couple from Canada in the theft of data constituting a state secret in the field of military and defense technologies. Since 2008, Kevin Garrat and Julia Don Garrat have been holding a cafe on the border with the DPRK, reports Reuters. On Monday, August 4, they were delivered for interrogation to the National Security Office of the PRC in the city of Dantun in the province of Liaonin.

According to Canadian The Globe and Mail , Kevin Garrat and Julia Don Garrat, a married couple from Vancouver, have been living in China since 1984, where they worked by teachers. Since 2008, they have a cafe Peter's Coffee House, named after the youngest son, in the city of Dantun in the province of Liaonin on the border of China with the DPRK.

On August 4, he was charged with espionage in the field of military and defense technologies, they were delivered for interrogation to the National Security of the PRC in Dantun, it is still impossible to contact them. According to local media, the investigation is being conducted.

As reported on the cafe website , it is located a few meters from the Friendship bridge over the Yalu River, which separates China from the DPRK, and is theoretically an excellent observation point behind the flow of trucks from China to the DPRK and vice versa. The Globe and Mail also reports that the spouses had a side business to organize tours to North Korea.

The publication emphasizes that in the Dantun of the cafe has become a kind of attraction, known for almost every resident of the city. In the institution you can not only drink coffee, but also have to practice English thanks to the colloquial club, which was going to weekly.

The incident occurred just a week after the Canadian government accused Chinese hackers of trying to hack computers of the National Research Council. The Chinese Foreign Ministry categorically rejected all the accusations. We will remind, earlier of attempts to cyberspioning, China accused the United States.

Sources in China also indicate that Christians often visited the Canadian cafes: in recent years, several similar institutions have opened on the border with the DPRK, which are kept by people who want to engage in evangelization in North Korea. At least one such a cafe, Gina's Place Western Restaurant, was closed on July 15 in Yanji, the administrative center of the Yanbyan-Korean Autonomous Okrug of China.

It is worth noting that the concept of GOSTINA in China is very blurry: it can be attributed to it almost anything, including information about the turnover and statistics of the death penalty, which is absent in open sources.