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Suh Hoon, former head of the National Security Office, who was identified as the key person in charge of the shooting of the West Sea civil servants, attended the arrest warrant review.
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Reporter Son Hyung-an, the interrogation has begun, right?
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Yes, the warrant review, which started at 10 am, has been going on for over two hours.
Suh Hoon, former head of the Moon Jae-in government's security line, did not answer reporters' questions before entering the courtroom.
[Seo Hoon/Former National Security Office Director: (I would like to ask you to say something about your feelings ahead of the warrant review.) …
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The charges against former Chief Seo include abuse of power and preparation of false public documents.
At the early morning of September 23, 2020, the day after the murder of the public official, a conclusion was reached at a meeting of related ministers, and the key person in charge ordered the deletion of wiretapping information from the Military, National Intelligence Service, and Coast Guard reports, as well as manipulation of the military information integrated processing system and MIMS. I'm watching.
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Seo's side strongly denies the allegations. What is the issue?
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Seo's side has refuted the allegations piece by piece.
He claimed that he had never deleted information that did not fit the conclusion of defecting to North Korea or attempted to cover up the incident, and that he was only managing the situation with the possibility of defecting to North Korea in mind under various circumstances.
It is known that there are 130 arrest warrants for former Chief Seo, and a fierce battle is expected to continue during the interrogation over the details of the North Korean policy and whether to delete the information.
Yesterday (1st), former President Moon Jae-in personally defended former chief Seo by saying that he was the one who listened to the report at the time and finally approved it. We will investigate and handle the case only accordingly.”
If the arrest is decided late at night, it seems that the prosecution will soon summon former NIS director Park Ji-won to investigate.