The NIS accused former director Park Ji-won of 'deleting intelligence', and former director Park counterattacked with 'Korea-US information sharing', suggesting the possibility of a 'judgment' in CIA information.
Regarding the complaint of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office on the 6th, the Chosun Ilbo said, "The Chosun Ilbo pointed out the charges of 'deleting intelligence reports' against former Director Park at the time of the assassination of a public official in the West Sea, and with former Director Seo Hoon of 'forced early termination of the joint investigation' at the time of forcible repatriation of defectors to North Korea." reported on the 7th.
Chosun continued, "The NIS recently caught these allegations during a high-intensity internal inspection and is said to have secured testimonies from internal staff to support it."
Former Director Park said on the 7th, “All intelligence SI documents are not produced by the National Intelligence Service. “Even if I delete it, the NIS remains on the main server,” he told CBS Radio.
When asked, "Where did you get the original intelligence from?", Park replied, "Since the Korea-U.S. intelligence alliance is thoroughly established, the public can rest assured about such issues."
In response to the question, 'I'm a Korean public official, was there any part of the information that you asked to be rescued?', he said, "The information committee denied it all, but I couldn't say I didn't know. ' He said, 'This shouldn't be the case. The alliance between South Korea and the US intelligence authorities is broken. Only announce what is agreed upon. If North Korea launches a projectile or missile, South Korea and the US intelligence authorities will agree and announce it.”
Regarding the NIS accusation, the Chosun Ilbo said, “The allegation of former director Park is the unauthorized deletion of intelligence-related reports. To sum up the coverage, in September 2020, the intelligence authorities said that the late Lee Dae-jun, a public official of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, said, “I am a Korean public official. It is reported that they have secured a record of wiretapping that they requested rescue from the North Korean military with the purpose of 'rescue them'. This is information that gives strength to the side of “drift” rather than “planned trip to North Korea.” At that time, it is possible that the NIS may have deleted items from the report that conflict with the possibility of Mr. Lee's defection to North Korea."
In a report to the National Defense Commission on September 24, 2020, former Defense Minister Seo Wook said, "The conclusion we have reached so far is that we have defected to North Korea," said former Defense Minister Seo Wook. On the other hand, there are concerns about how our capabilities and limitations are being made known externally, especially to the North.”
The Hankyoreh on the 6th said, "The Yun administration's 'pro-North Korean drive' began by overturning the results of an existing interim investigation announced on the 16th of last month by the Ministry of National Defense and Coast Guard as 'presumed voluntarily defecting to North Korea'. About two hours later, the NIS announced its policy of accusing the former NIS chief.”
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who visited North Korea four times and coordinated the first and second U.S.-North Korea summits between former U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said, “Chairman Kim is the right way forward for us [the United States] to present. They believed it was the way to go, but in fact, Xi Jinping (President of China) was moving them (North Korea),” he said. China has interfered with North Korea's denuclearization, and it is said that "this issue (North Korean nuclear issue) is the issue of the Chinese Communist Party."
The Chosun Ilbo reported on the 7th that former US Secretary of State Pompeo, who led the North Korean strategy as CIA director for four years, said that China had interfered with North Korea's denuclearization.
In his remarks, he said, “This issue (North Korea’s nuclear program) is the problem of the Chinese Communist Party. We know that we have to expend our resources to stop North Korea's nuclear weapons," he said in a public interview at the Asian Leadership Conference (ALC) to be held on the 13th, Chosun reported.
Chosun continued to report on his remarks, saying, "In some ways, North Korea's nuclear weapons are an extension of China's nuclear weapons program."
Secretary Pompey was the CIA director in the early days of Trump's administration, the Republican Party. Earlier, he developed a strategy toward North Korea with about 800 agents at the Korea Mission Center (KMC) like the CIA's 'Ukraine Mission Center (UMC)'. Immediately after the inauguration of the government, it was officially confirmed that the 'North Korea-US summit was a CIA project'.
The Moon Jae-in regime announced the ‘driver’ as the ‘Berlin Declaration’ with the Trump regime in 2017, and remarked that “Koreans respect President Trump” at the 2019 Korea-US summit.
When the Biden administration disbanded the KMC and established the China Mission Center (CMC) in the middle of a North Korea policy review in October 2021, the Moon Jae-in regime clashed by demanding the succession of the Trump regime’s North Korea policy in response.
Andrew Kim, director of the KMC Center, a Korean-American, has been to the Blue House and is known to be close with Chief Security Officer Suh Hoon.
On the morning of the 7th, KBS said, "It was confirmed that the military at the time deleted dozens of confidential information related to the 'Public Official Lee Dae-jun's murder case' that occurred in the West Sea in September 2020." There are suspicions that the information has been deleted.”
KBS said, “The intelligence obtained by the military became an important basis for judgment. Multiple high-ranking military officials said that on the 23rd and 24th, when Lee Dae-jun's disappearance turned into a possibility of defecting to North Korea, a significant amount of confidential information secured by the military was deleted without permission. It is from the connected military integrated information processing system 'Mims'. A high-ranking military official reported that between the 23rd and 24th, about 20 first-class and second-class information had been deleted from Mims.
The incident started in the sea near Yeonpyeong Island in the West Sea on September 21, 2020, and the head of the National Security Office and the Director of the National Intelligence Service held a ministerial meeting in the early morning of the 23rd. .
The Dong-A Ilbo reported on the 7th, "Ex-Director Park is under suspicion of deleting or ordering the deletion of some documents produced by the NIS staff collecting intelligence to determine Mr. Lee's intention to defect to North Korea. The NIS is said to have identified the circumstances in which former Director Seo directly intervened in shortening the investigation period.”
'Dong-A' continued, "It is known that they plan to look into whether there were inappropriate situations in the process of the North Korea-US summit in Singapore and Hanoi, including the three inter-Korean summits during the Moon Jae-in administration." They came in and out, and since I had a lot of contact with officials from the Blue House and the National Intelligence Service at the time, I am keeping an eye on what happened before and after Pyeongchang.”
The controversial MIMS (Military Integrated Information Processing System) is a military information distribution network for military information management between divisions level and higher, and the National Intelligence Service and the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command are information sharing systems.
Kim Jun-rak, director of public affairs at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on the 7th, "The original information has not been deleted, but it is understood that necessary measures have been taken to prevent the transmission of sensitive information loaded into the military information integration system to units not directly related to its duties.“
The National Intelligence Service said in the afternoon that it was not Mims that Park deleted without permission, but a report related to intelligence, and said, "The content of the accusation has absolutely nothing to do with it."
At the airport, after an 8-day visit to the US FBI, Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon said, "The prosecution will take care of it."
In the absence of the Prosecutor General, which had been vacant for more than 60 days, Minister Han made a business trip to key prosecutors before going on a business trip, and the trip to the United States is a visit to the FBI personnel verification system.
In the United States, the FBI only 'verifies the authenticity of answers' to the 'personal identity statement', 'question for national security positions', 'consent to inspect personal financial records', and 'disclosure letter of administrative officials' assets' of about 230 inquiries written by candidates by the White House.
The system has already been made public as the White House decides on the 'question content'.
The presidential office announced on the 25th of last month that a minister would travel to the FBI and said, "In the United States, the FBI performs the first verification."
Minister Han said at a press conference on his return to Korea, "The FBI is a method of providing primary data without judging opinions and values by collecting data from a third party, not a person with personnel authority, like us."
<Refer to May 23, 2021, ‘The Singapore-North Korea summit is a CIA project, confirmed by the head of the KMC center’>