With "Moon Administration Blames 'Civil Servant Killing Incident' on Defection to North Korea"

Moon Jae-in Administration Maintains North Korea Policy Stance...
Frames Civil Servant Killing as Simple Defection Case

Heo Eun-ah, member of the People Power Party (Photo by Yonhap News)

[Asia Economy Reporter Ryu Tae-min] The People Power Party raised its voice of criticism once again on the 8th against the Moon Jae-in administration and the Democratic Party of Korea, stating that it is reasonable to suspect that information reported to the National Intelligence Service and the military regarding the shooting incident of the West Sea public official was concealed.

Senior Spokesperson Heo Eun-ah said in a commentary on the day, "It can be seen that the Moon Jae-in administration, in order to maintain their North Korea policy stance, framed the killing of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official as a simple case of defection to the North, centered around the National Security Office."

Spokesperson Heo cited a report from the Chosun Ilbo, saying, "According to the media today, regarding the content that the late Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official Lee Dae-jun was shot by North Korean soldiers in September 2020, a government official revealed that after the emergency ministerial meeting held at 1 a.m. on September 23, 2020, about 40 military secrets uploaded to the Military Integrated Information Processing System were deleted, including important matters such as North Korean eavesdropping information on the process of Lee’s death."

He added, "According to the People Power Party’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official shooting incident task force, the emergency ministerial meeting at 1 a.m. on September 23, the ministerial meeting at 10 a.m., and the inter-ministerial meeting on the 24th changed the stance from 'presumed crash → possibility of defection → presumed defection' respectively," and said, "In this process, there is growing credibility to the claim that the National Intelligence Service and military authorities deleted information that contradicted the 'defection narrative' and selectively created intelligence reports that aligned with the Moon Jae-in administration’s North Korea policy stance."

He continued, "An intelligence agency official told the media, 'It is understood that a key figure in the Blue House National Security Office was involved in the deletion of intelligence indicating that it was not defection and in the creation of distorted reports,'" and asserted, "It can be seen that the Moon Jae-in administration, centered on the National Security Office, framed the killing of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official as a simple defection case to maintain their North Korea policy stance."

He added, "It is reasonable to suspect that they forcibly concealed intelligence and information reported to the National Intelligence Service and the military to support this," and said, "However, the Democratic Party is trying to cover up the mistake by creating a West Sea killing incident task force and claiming that after the launch of the Yoon Seok-youl administration, the presidential office intervened and both the Coast Guard and the Ministry of National Defense simultaneously changed their stance on defection, thus muddying the waters."

Senior Spokesperson Heo urged, "The mistake of security disorder, where information was concealed by power and a citizen was fabricated as a defector, must be corrected," and called on, "Officials of the Democratic Party and the Moon Jae-in administration must confess in detail what happened at the meetings on September 23 and 24, 2020."

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