Attorney Lee Kyung-jae Files Criminal Complaint Against Kim Yo-jong, WPK First Deputy Director, Over 'Liaison Office Explosion'

Kim Yo-jong, First Deputy Director of the Workers' Party. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin] Kim Yo-jong, the first deputy director of the Workers' Party and sister of North Korean State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un, has been criminally accused domestically for blowing up the Kaesong Inter-Korean Joint Liaison Office.

Lee Kyung-jae, a lawyer at Northeast Asia Law Firm, announced on the 8th that he filed a complaint with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office against Deputy Director Kim and North Korean General Staff Chief Park Jung-chon on charges of using explosives and destroying public property.

The complaint was sent by mail on the same day and is expected to be received by the prosecution as early as the 9th.

In the complaint, the lawyer claimed, "Deputy Director Kim publicly admitted to ordering the destruction of the liaison office, and sufficient evidence has been secured based on media reports and materials from the Ministry of Unification's announcements."

The liaison office opened in September 2018 following the Panmunjom Declaration agreed upon by the South and North Korean leaders in April 2018.

Earlier, North Korea destroyed the liaison office on the 16th of last month and announced the demolition through Korean Central Broadcasting and Central TV on the same day.

The lawyer is known for defending Choi Seo-won (formerly Choi Soon-sil), who was identified as a 'shadow power' during the Park Geun-hye administration and was tried from the first trial onward.

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