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The political battle over the death of a South Korean public official by a North Korean military gun in the West Sea two years ago is turning into a debate over whether to disclose the information at the time.

The Democratic Party said today (21st) that there is nothing it can't do to the people's power to read the presidential records, but it doesn't seem like it will be easy to lead to actual disclosure.



Reporter Hwa Kang-yoon reports.



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President Yoon Seok-yeol drew a line on the SI, or special information disclosure, which the Democratic Party faced in response to the demands of the people's power to find out the truth.



[President Seok-Yeol Yoon: I think that it is not a simple matter to just disclose to the public.

It's a bit difficult to accept.]



SI is military information obtained through various methods such as wiretapping by the ROK and US military authorities, and if disclosed, there is a high risk of exposing the source of the information or the ROK-US information sharing system.



In this air current, the People's Power held the first meeting of the 'Fact-Finding Task Force on the Assault on a Public Official of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries' and repeatedly pressured the Democratic Party to cooperate in reading the documents of former President Moon Jae-in instead of the SI.



[Kwon Seong-dong / People's Power Floor Leader: From the beginning, the answer was set to North Korea.

It should be revealed by whom and how this death was transformed into North Korea.]



The intention is to verify evidence of so-called 'exploitation' by the Blue House National Security Office or the Office of the Chief Civil Affairs Officer at the time of the incident.



The Democratic Party, who said it would not cooperate with the reading of the presidential records, suddenly changed its position today.



Saying there was no reason not to disclose it, he counterattacked to take responsibility for the result instead.



[Woo Sang-ho / Democratic Party Emergency Response Committee Chairman: What the hell are you going to gain by constantly biting the former president?

Let's do it, then I'll do it all.

There's something I shouldn't do, but everything will return to a boomerang.]



While making it clear that the character of the front is 'retaliation for the former government', it is a calculation that the passport will also be burdened by the aftermath such as the theory of security responsibility following information disclosure.



The People's Power immediately responded by saying, "Let's discuss how to read it," but the Democratic Party's position is that "it is only a matter of principle, not a collection of opinions," so it seems unlikely that it will lead to the disclosure of the presidential records right away.



(Video coverage: Cho Chun-dong, video editing: Park Jeong-sam)