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It's been a while, so let's organize things once again.

On September 24, two days after the death of public official Lee, the Blue House condemned the North Korean atrocities.

The next day, Kim Jong-un sent a notice saying he was very sorry.

Nevertheless, North Korea did not comply with the request for a joint investigation, and in the end it was left up to the South Korean government to reveal the truth.

Then, on September 29, the Coast Guard released the investigation result that Mr. Lee had crossed the North on his own.

He said that he analyzed based on military intelligence and also mentioned that Mr. Lee had gambling debts.

And today, nearly two years later, in 2022, the government's position has completely changed.



Reporter Kim Min-jung looked at the background.



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Two years ago, the key reason for the decision to defect to North Korea was the special intelligence of the military called SI.



It is said that in the contents of the North Korean radio wiretapping, there was the word 'North Korea', although it was not the upbringing of Mr. Lee, a public official.



[Ha Tae-kyung/Rep. of People's Power (National Assembly Defense Committee, October 8, 2020): Is this saying 'there was a situation'?

Or is there a word meaning North Korea?]



[Won In-cheol/Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (National Assembly Defense Committee, October 8, 2020): There was a word.]



But today (16th), the Ministry of National Defense said, He changed the words, saying, "I was confused by an impossible part."



[Yoon Hyung-jin/Director of Policy Planning Division, Ministry of Defense: As a result of analyzing the relevant contents once again, it is impossible to prove the voluntary defection of a missing public official to North Korea…

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The word 'flight' of a North Korean official detected by wiretapping does not fully prove Mr. Lee's intention to defect to North Korea.



At the time, the Coast Guard explained that Lee had hundreds of millions of won in gambling debts and that he had taken his shoes off the ship was circumstantial evidence, so it was impossible to prove North Korea.



However, the military and coast guard did not provide any new evidence.



The basis of the judgment remains the same, but a contradictory interpretation from two years ago has emerged.



The announcement of the interim investigation results two years ago was criticized for being conscious of the Blue House, which was obsessed with improving inter-Korean relations, such as pushing for a declaration of an end to the war.



In the end, if the controversy is to be resolved, the data from the National Security Office at the time, which is the final destination of information, would be the key.



(Video Edit: Yang Wen)



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