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The political battle over this case has no end in sight.

The Democratic Party claimed that the presidential office was involved in the Coast Guard's recent investigation into the results of the investigation, and the People's Power at the time accused the Moon Jae-in government of that there was evidence that it was a drift, not a defection.



Next is reporter Lee Hyun-young.



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Democratic Party's TF in the West Sea civil servant shooting incident claimed that the Yoon Seok-yeol administration, not the Moon Jae-in administration, overturned the judgment.



It was confirmed that the current National Security Office was deeply involved in the announcement of the final investigation results by the Ministry of National Defense and Coast Guard on the 16th.



[Kim Byung-ju / Democratic Party's West Sea public official murder case TF head: I made a press conference with the Security Office for three weeks.

That's why the Security Office of the President's Office is deeply involved.]



As the basis for this, the Coast Guard said that the background of the joint press conference with the Ministry of National Defense was explained as "the National Security Office built a bridge."



The presidential office immediately refuted, saying, "I have not been involved" and that "the argument of the opposition party is an absurd political offensive."



After the Ministry of National Defense and Coast Guard, the People's Power TF, which conducted an on-site investigation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the fifth time, presented this expression of former Minister Kang Kyung-wha as evidence of the Moon Jae-in administration's 'trafficking North Korea'.



[Kang Kyung-wha / Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (September 25, 2020): The North Korean Navy opened fire and incinerated a South Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official who was drifting in the North West Sea.



The day after attending the NSC Standing Committee, which judged that 'the possibility of defection to North Korea is high', the expression 'drift' rather than 'to North Korea' is that former Minister Kang did not agree with the Blue House decision.



[Ha Tae-kyung / People's Power Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Official Investigation TF Chairman: You can check the difference between Minister Kang's judgment on this case and the mainstream at the time.



] Cooperate with the disclosure of the contents,” he repeatedly pressured the Democratic Party.



The ruling and opposition parties are raising new suspicions day after day, but no clear evidence is provided, and political battles in which only claims come and go continue to reveal the truth.



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



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