The air force colonel, whose name was withheld, is suspected of leaking details about a Chinese submarine incident to a reporter, a violation of military law, the reports said. He is suspected of giving a reporter from the Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading daily newspaper, information in May 2005 that a Chinese submarine was in trouble in the South China Sea due to a fire.

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