China News Network, April 4 -- The leakage of classified documents in the United States continues to ferment. According to Yonhap News Agency, on the 11th local time, Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea's largest opposition party, the Common Democratic Party, said on the US wiretapping turmoil that if true, it would be a disappointing incident that undermined the ROK-US alliance based on mutual trust. South Korea's presidential office has previously said that meetings or calls made at the presidential palace building are highly unlikely to be tapped or wiretapped.
According to reports, Lee Jae-myung made the above statement when attending a forum for foreign media reporters at the South Korean News Center on the same day. He said he hoped that the incident would be fake, as the South Korean government officially announced. However, based on the objective situation, it is difficult to rule out the possibility of eavesdropping by the US side. Lee said the Democratic Party would do its best to investigate the truth at the congressional level. If the incident is true, it will urge the US to apologize and prevent similar situations from happening again, and urge the South Korean government to take preventive measures.
However, previously, a relevant person from the South Korean presidential office stressed in an interview that the presidential palace building is equipped with an anti-eavesdropping system, but the details cannot be disclosed for confidentiality reasons, and the presidential office and other presidential office spaces are installed with relevant equipment.
Another relevant person also said that at the time of the relocation of the presidential palace, the National Security Office and the Presidential Police Service equipped the current presidential palace building with a fairly robust security system, and the conversations held in the building could not be tapped or overheard. The South Korean presidential office also countered that the content of the National Security Council meeting held in the three underground bunkers of the presidential palace could not be tapped or wiretapped.
Recently, the leakage of classified US documents has attracted many attention, and the documents leaked to the Internet show that US intelligence agencies have eavesdropped on and monitored the South Korean government. Yonhap News Agency reported that the documents mentioned in the report included a dialogue between Kim Sung-han, then head of South Korea's National Security Office, and Lee Boon-hee, then foreign secretary, suspected of discussing whether South Korea was considering whether to provide artillery shells to Ukraine under pressure from the United States.
According to the report, regarding the news of the wiretap, the South Korean presidential office is watching to see whether the report will have a negative impact on President Yoon Seok-yue's visit to the United States at the end of the month. The Korean presidential office also released official sources saying that it will pay attention to the findings of the US Department of Defense and the Department of Justice, while also strengthening secrecy.