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News summary on the way home from work, Subsletter Evening.
The Board of Audit and Inspection is pointing a 'scalpel' at the Moon Jae-in government, and it is looking for the mistakes of the previous government through an all-round audit.
The passport says it is an audit for 'cleaning up new bad debt', and the opposition party is protesting it as a 'targeted audit'.
4 Coast Guard officers on standby... digital forensics
The Board of Audit and Inspection is auditing the Korea Coast Guard and the Ministry of National Defense in relation to the 'Attack of a Public Official in the West Sea' by the North Korean Army in 2020.
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The Board of Audit and Inspection is conducting a voluntary investigation into four executives who were in the investigation command line at the time, and it is said that with the consent of the parties, they started copying computer hard disks for digital forensics.
We are trying to restore the data to see if the investigation process was appropriate at the time.
In this case, a standby order is automatically issued.
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At the beginning of the incident, the Coast Guard judged that the attacked public official had attempted to defect, but recently overturned that it could not find any evidence to conclude that it was North Korea.
Since then, 9 high-ranking officials above the police chief, including Coast Guard Commissioner Jeong Bong-hoon, expressed their resignation at once, but this was rejected.
Among the four people who received a standby order this time, two executives with higher than the public security officer who had expressed their resignation were also included.
Military secrets also audited
In the Ministry of National Defense, which is being audited along with the Coast Guard, there are no executives under voluntary investigation and there is no standby order.
However, the Ministry of National Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are also nervous as it has been confirmed that some of the initially classified information collected regarding the killing of a public official in the West Sea has been deleted from the military information distribution network.
Confidential information related to the murder was deleted from the information distribution network where the Joint Chiefs of Staff shares intelligence and information in real time with subordinate units.
According to the nature of the information, it is said that it is operated in a structure that can be managed by the intelligence chief of the Ministry of National Defense and the Navy.
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It seems that these allegations will also be clarified in this audit by the Board of Audit and Inspection, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff is explaining that there is no big problem, saying, "It can be regarded as an action taken as necessary" and "the original has not been deleted."
However, they are not giving a clear answer for reasons such as whether the deletion of MIMS information is common or whether the measures to delete confidential information in relation to the murder of a public official in the West Sea were carried out in accordance with the regulations and procedures, such as the audit of the Board of Audit and Inspection in progress.
'Collander voting' audit from all directions, including the National Election Commission and KDI
Audits by the Board of Audit and Inspection are being conducted in all directions, not just the Coast Guard and the Ministry of National Defense.
In connection with the so-called 'colander voting', which caused controversy over poor management of votes for corona confirmed and quarantined people during the last presidential election, the Board of Audit and Inspection conducted an audit of the National Election Commission on the 4th. It is included in the audit.
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The National Election Commission said, "The establishment of the Election Commission as an independent institution under the Constitution is to prevent undue influence or interference from outside parties, such as interested parties, in the handling of various elections and referendums, and to perform duties neutrally and fairly. It is to guarantee. The National Election Commission is difficult to see as the subject of the audit of the Board of Audit and Inspection.”
However, the Board of Audit and Inspection refutes that the National Election Commission can be inspected on the basis of the fact that only 'public officials belonging to the National Assembly, the courts, and the Constitutional Court' are excluded from inspection by the Board of Audit and Inspection.
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Also, yesterday, President Hong Jang-pyo of the Korea Development Institute (KDI) publicly expressed his resignation in protest against the current government's pressure to resign. It is said to be.
The pressure of the Board of Audit and Inspection was also one of the reasons for the resignation.
KDI was not subject to regular audits, but it is said that the Board of Audit and Inspection suddenly requested data submission at the end of last month saying that it was collecting basic data such as accounting and personnel management.
Prior to this, the Board of Audit and Inspection began an audit of the Korea Communications Commission in a situation where the passport pressured Han Sang-hyeok to resign as chairman of the Korea Communications Commission.
There are many things to be audited and the scope is wider than ever.
Internal inspection is also ongoing... Counting government figures?
The atmosphere inside the Audit Office is also said to be unfavorable.
The Chosun Ilbo reported today (7th), "It is known that five people are being inspected, including Section A of the Public Institutions Audit Bureau, on charges of 'thanks for taking care' of the Moon Jae-in administration. PCs are confiscated and forensic (restoration) is being conducted.”
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The Chosun Ilbo reports that the internal inspection was under the direction of Secretary-General Yoo Byung-ho, who was deposed after supervising the 'early shutdown of Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1' under the Moon Jae-in administration.
The Board of Audit and Inspection is not confirming the truth of the reports.
However, several stories are flowing around the Board of Audit and Inspection, such as the fact that internal inspections of five people are in progress and that in the past administration, President Yoo Byung-ho and Manager A frequently clashed and did not have a good relationship.
The auditor says it's messy.
It is not yet known if it is a conflict or if it is trying to pick out people who are close to the Moon Jae-in government, but it seems clear that the new government's Audit Office is going to be a sniper for the Moon Jae-in government.
a piece of the day
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This is a photo posted on Chinese social media such as Weibo, and it is said that a corona negative stamp was put on the back of the hand of the residents in an area of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
It is said that Chinese netizens are outraged, saying that it is reminiscent of a stamp put on animals in a slaughterhouse.
(Photo = provided by KDI, SNS photo capture, Yonhap News)
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