KIEV, June 8 - Ukraine has sentenced two North Korean trade mission employees to eight years in prison each for spying.

Ukrainian Security Service officers exposed the two Koreans while they were attempting to gain access to classified information, segodnya.ua reported on Friday.

Having arrived in Dnipropetrovsk from Minsk, the two Koreans attempted to recruit an employee of the Pivdenne Design Bureau, a high-ranking official from the Prosecutor General's Office told the publication.