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Commissioner Kim Soon-ho of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, who is suspected of being specially appointed by the police in exchange for informing a colleague who worked with the labor movement in the past, appeared to the National Assembly today (18th).

Director Kim strongly denied the allegations surrounding him.

Outside the National Assembly, people from the pro-democracy movement argued that Director Kim should be fired.



Correspondent Kim Sang-min.



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first police chief Kim Soon-ho, the first chief of public security,'s 'suggestion of trespassing' was an issue throughout the report of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security's work to the National Assembly.



Director Kim, who had been suspected of being specially recruited in the past for 'Incheon Bucheon Democratic Workers' Association,' that is, informing the police of a colleague of the Innohoe, reiterated his previous position that the Innohoe was a foreign organization at the time and converted to escape from the Juche ideology.



[Kim Soon-ho/Director of Police Department of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security: Inflammation of the Juche ideology and fear of the Juche ideology because of such things



. He bowed down for a while to apologize, but repeatedly insisted that he had never tipped off a colleague.



[Kim Soon-ho / Chief of Police, Ministry of Public Administration and Security: If you have played a role like that (spy), there is no need to go undercover.

Because he would be suspicious.

And if he had done something like that, he would have been a con.

right after the case is over.

It was also obvious that he would be suspicious of it.]



Regardless of the opposition or opposition, I asked him why he did not receive criminal punishment even though he was engaged in the same activities of the labor union, but Director Kim refused to give a clear answer.



[Jung Woo-taek / Rep. of People's Power: Those who were in the 'Innocentr Society' were punished.

(Director Kim also worked for a year or so) What is the reason why he was not punished?]



[Soon-ho Kim/Director of Police Department, Ministry of Public Administration and Security: It is a matter that should be decided by the authorities that conducted the investigation.]



[Lee Seong-man/Rep .

I don't know if I did not receive the .) I don't know, but I've been watching from time to time, right?]



[Kim Soon-ho/Ministry of Public Administration and Security Police Commissioner: I know that's not the case.] In



Yongsan, Seoul, the June Democracy Forum, in front of Kim's alma mater, Sungkyunkwan University. Current students and others have called for the resignation of Director Kim.



[Park Jong-geun/At the time, Incheon Bucheon Democratic Workers' Association (Innohoe) member: 'Incheon Bucheon Democratic Workers' Association', who has the historical truth, reality, and its memories, aren't they?

Can we bury this in history?

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Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min dismissed Kim's replacement as 'a hasty judgment', saying that there is room to examine whether the question that Kim is receiving is reasonable.



(Video coverage: Chan-su Lee, Nam-seong Kim, video editing: Seung-hee Lee, VJ: Hyung-jin Kim)