Regarding the claim of the Democratic Party that the 1st and 2nd deputy director of the National Security Office of the Presidential Office and the Minister of National Defense read the original text of the SI (special information) related to the shooting of a public official in the West Sea on the 1st, Kim Tae-hyo, 1st deputy director of the National Security Office, told the New Daily, “I have never seen the original” retorted.
The Democrats’ claim that the presidential office is behind the existing opinion of the North Korean defector decision regarding the late Lee Dae-jun is not true.
Democratic Party “Changed investigation results under the direction of the National Security Office”
Rep. Kim Byung-ju, head of the Democratic Party’s ‘West Sea Civil Official Murder Case’ TF, visited the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the 1st and said, “It is suspected that the investigation results have been changed according to the ‘top-down’ order coordinated by the National Security Office without a thorough review of the investigation by the Coast Guard and the Ministry of National Defense.” claimed that
Rep. Kim pointed out, “Before the announcement of the final investigation results, the Coast Guard did not review or analyze the information judgment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff once again, nor did they make a request,” Kim pointed out. highly reported.
Rep. Kim also emphasized that after the meeting with officials of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “We reconfirmed the circumstances that the security office of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration was involved.”
Rep. Kim explained, “The timing is not exact, but (this year) 5 It was estimated around the end of the month.” The exact date was added, “(The Joint Chiefs of Staff) will inform you later.”
Earlier, on the 16th of last month, the Coast Guard and the Ministry of National Defense overturned the results of the previous ‘presumption of North Korea’ investigation, saying, “We did not find any evidence to confirm the intention to defect to North Korea.” In response, the Democratic Party believed that the National Security Office of the President’s Office had intervened in overturning the investigation results of the Coast Guard and the Ministry of National Defense after inspecting the SI.
Rep. Kim also claimed, “(Lee Jong-seop), Minister of National Defense, also received a report on SI at the time of the accident on May 25.”
When asked if the SI they reported was the original text, Rep. Kim replied, “I read the original text, and it is said that they reported a report on the comprehensive information judgment at that time.”
Regarding the allegation that the Moon Jae-in administration’s Blue House pressured the Ministry of National Defense to manipulate North Korea into North Korea, he said, “There was no external instruction, guidance, or external pressure on the matter related to North Korea in 2020. I confirmed that,” he said.
1st deputy chief of the National Security Office “I have never read the original SI”
Then, Kim Tae-hyo, the first deputy director of the National Security Office, pointed out that Rep. Kim had read the original text of the SI, and retorted, “(Kim’s claim) seems wrong. We didn’t see the original text.”
Deputy Director Kim said in a phone call with New Daily that day, “The Ministry of National Defense came and gave a little explanation, but I never showed the original text.”
When asked if it was true that the report was received from the Ministry of National Defense at the end of May, Deputy Director Kim emphasized again, saying, “It was shortly after (the president) took office.
When asked if the minister had received the original SI text from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the defense ministry said, “Nothing has been confirmed.”
At the first meeting of the Democratic Party-related task force held at the National Assembly on the 28th of last month, Rep. Kim raised suspicions that “the presidential office led the overturning of the investigation results of the Coast Guard and the Ministry of National Defense.” The Coast Guard and the presidential office unanimously refuted that this was not true.
In a notice on the 29th, the Office of the Spokesperson for the Office of the President said, “The Office of the President makes it clear again and again that it was not involved in the Coast Guard investigation or change of position. We take it seriously and cooperate with the investigation of the truth, such as the disclosure of presidential records.”
The Coast Guard also countered that on the same day, “There was no fact that the Coast Guard received any guidance from the Security Office regarding the fact that it coordinated the results with the National Security Office prior to the announcement of the final investigation results on the 16th.”
