The head of a local performing arts company has been arrested on charges of contacting North Korean spies, in violation of South Korea's security law, the state intelligence agency said Friday. Jeon Sik-reol, who leads a small progressive arts company called Chool, is under suspicion of frequently contacting agents of the United Front Department and Office 225 under the North's Workers' Party of Korea in China, said South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS).