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A few days ago, the prosecution, which investigated the death of a South Korean public official by a North Korean soldier, requested arrest warrants for former Defense Minister Seo Wook and former Coast Guard Commissioner Kim Hong-hee.

There was a warrant substantive examination today (21st), and there was a case where the family of the deceased public servant rushed to the former minister and protested.



Reporter Park Ye-rin covered the story.



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Former Defense Minister Seo Wook, who has been requested for an arrest warrant for the late Lee Dae-joon, who defected to North Korea voluntarily and on charges of deleting 60 conflicting military secrets.



[Seo Wook/Former Defense Minister: (Are you sure you were instructed to write false information in the Joint Chiefs of Staff report?) …

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In court, former Minister Seo is known to have defended the deletion of data as a justifiable measure to prevent the disclosure of information to unrelated units.



When I left the courtroom after the interrogation, the bereaved family of the late Lee Dae-jun rushed in and caused a commotion for a while.



[Lee Rae-jin / Survivors of the ‘West Sea Attack’ incident: The last government drove an innocent government official into a spy.

I believe that this is an incident that should never be forgiven or overlooked.]



Former Coast Guard Commissioner Kim Hong-hee, who is accused of concealing evidence and distorting experimental results and voluntarily announcing the results of an investigation focusing on North Korea, also conducted a warrant review. received.



Former Commissioner Kim was also charged with abuse of power and making false public documents, along with charges of defamation of a lion.



Defamation of a lion is a crime that occurs when a false statement is presented, suggesting that the prosecution judged the announcement of the results of the investigation led by former Commissioner Kim as false.



Regardless of whether the two are arrested or not, the prosecution plans to expand the investigation to former National Security Office Director Seo Hoon and former National Intelligence Service Director Park Ji-won.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Park Ki-duk)