North Korea is accusing South Korea of fabricating a current case of espionage.

The North’s Committee for Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland said in a statement Wednesday that the case against alleged North Korean female spy, Won Jeong-hwa, was a sheer fabrication. She was arrested by the South in July.

The committee said the classified information on South Korea’s military Won allegedly gathered for the North is unclassified data that can be easily obtained on the Internet.

The statement said it is the first time such an outlandish case had been fabricated, claiming that the plot is aimed at uniting conservative forces in the South and evading responsibility for aggravated inter-Korean ties.

The statement added that Won is a runaway criminal who fled to the South long ago and had faced legal sanctions in the North for fraud and larceny.

The statement also claimed that Won’s stepfather also fled the North after failing to land jobs. South Korean investigators had concluded in their probe that Won’s stepfather and two brothers were also spies for the communist state.