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Dear friends-
On August 28, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), formerly known as the Korean CIA, raided the offices and homes of the Unified Progressive Party, which holds six seats in South Korea’s National Assembly. Three members were arrested during the raids, and lawmaker Lee Seok-ki was later stripped of immunity and placed under arrest. The NIS charged that members of the Unified Progressive Party were plotting rebellion, aiming to take up arms against the government in the event of war with North Korea.
This is a witch hunt launched by the ruling Saenuri Party of President Park Geun-hye and the National Intelligence Service to purge progressive voices from the political process.
Please read, circulate, and sign the following statement to call on the Park Geun-hye administration to stop its attack on democracy and express solidarity with the progressive and democratic forces in South Korea.
Send all endorsements by NO LATER THAN Wednesday September 25 to stop.nis@gmail.com.
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For a critical analysis of the current situation in Korea - read Gregory Elich's Political Firestorm in South Korea in Counterpunch.
For the Unified Progressive Party's response to the charges against it - please see the attached document.
Sincerely,
Gregory Elich - Author of Strange Liberators: Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit
Tim Shorrock - Author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
Hyun Lee - Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific
STOP REPRESSION IN SOUTH KOREA!
Democracy in South Korea is under attack. The ruling Saenuri Party of President Park Geun-hye and the National Intelligence Service have launched a witch hunt to purge progressive voices from the political process.
On August 28, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), formerly known as the Korean CIA, raided the offices and homes of the Unified Progressive Party, which holds six seats in South Korea’s National Assembly. Three members were arrested during the raids, and lawmaker Lee Seok-ki was later stripped of immunity and placed under arrest.
The NIS charged that members of the Unified Progressive Party were plotting rebellion, aiming to take up arms against the government in the event of war with North Korea. The sole evidence for these outlandish claims was a transcript said to be taken from a surreptitious filming by an informer of two meetings held by the Unified Progressive Party in May.
Those arrested say that the NIS fabricated the words that it attributed to them, and an internal investigation by the Unified Progressive Party affirmed that the transcript excerpts the NIS leaked to the press did not correspond to what participants in the meetings heard being said.
The NIS, like its predecessor, the KCIA, has a long history of inventing and manipulating evidence in order to achieve its political aims. In the last Korean election, it manipulated a transcript from former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. The changes made it appear that Roh intended to turn over South Korean territorial waters to the north. The intent was to paint the liberal and left opposition parties as disloyal and provide a boost to the campaigns of candidates belonging to the ruling party.
The NIS is once again fabricating evidence, this time in order to remove the Unified Progressive Party from the national scene. Lee-Seok-ki and others face the prospect of imprisonment, and the NIS is considering adding the charge of aiding the enemy, which carries with it a potential death penalty.
The Unified Progressive Party spearheaded the ever-growing national protests against abuses by the NIS. Outrage has been mounting over interference by the NIS in the electoral process, and harassment and investigations against individuals for their politics, such as opponents of the Korean Free Trade Agreement. Protests increased in size and militancy, spreading throughout the nation.
The National Security Law, a remnant from the Japanese colonial period and the anti-communist Syngman Rhee regime in the years following the Second World War, is still in effect, and essentially makes it a crime to express thoughts that can be construed as “pro-North” or “pro-communist.” When liberally interpreted, it has often been used to suppress dissent.
The National Security Law is the weapon of choice for the NIS. Clearly, the attack on the party aims to crush the calls to reform the NIS and provide bogus justification for its continued involvement in domestic affairs.
The ruling Saenuri Party is calling for Lee Seok-ki to be removed from office, even though he has yet to be tried, let alone convicted. The Ministry of Justice has created a taskforce to look into responding to petitions by conservative groups to file a request with the Constitutional Court to dissolve the Unified Progressive Party.
The South Korean people suffered under many years of dictatorship and military rule. They won a hard-fought victory to bring democracy to their nation. The McCarthyist tactics of the Saenuri Party and the NIS threaten to undo that achievement. They cannot be allowed to destroy South Korea’s democracy.
We, the undersigned, demand the Park Geun-hye administration-
• Free Lee Seok-ki and other members of the Unified Progressive Party arrested under false charges.
• Free members of the Beomminryeon unification organization, arrested in a raid by the NIS in June.
• Halt the effort to remove Lee Seok-ki from office.
• Stop the move to dissolve the Unified Progressive Party.
• Abolish the National Security Law, instrument of repression.
• Ban the National Intelligence Service from engaging in domestic surveillance and investigation of citizens.
• Bring to justice those in the NIS who were responsible for interfering in the last election and in fabricating evidence.
<A Commentary on the National
Intelligence Service’s Fabricated
‘Conspiracy for Rebellion’ Charge against the Unified Progressive
Party>
It has been eight months
since the public exposure of the National Intelligence Service's (NIS) illegal
intervention in the 2012 presidential election.
The police and the ruling Saenuri Party’s attempts to conceal the truth
of the NIS’ systematic interference in last year’s presidential election is now
being brought to light. Based on the
revelations so far alone, President Park Geun-hye should be held accountable
and the NIS should be dissolved. Events, however, seem to be unfolding in the
opposite direction. Leaders of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP) have been
summoned or arrested on charges of ‘conspiracy for rebellion’ and the party,
which spearheaded anti-war and peace campaigns as well as the movement to
dismantle the NIS, is now under serious threat of being dissolved. Today in
Korea, a witch hunt is instilling fear and self-censorship across the nation.
Members of UPP, nevertheless, stand united with greater resolve than ever
to withstand the terror campaign and
emerge victorious in the end.
1. NIS’ Political Maneuver and Interference in the Presidential
Election
- After taking office, the
former NIS chief Won Sei-hoon reorganized the Psychological Warfare Team in
February 2012. The team was put under
the command of the third deputy director and was divided into four teams of
about 70 agents. These agents received directives with ‘key issues and talking
points’ through the order of the NIS' third deputy director, the new head of
the psychological warfare division, and created online aliases to pose as
ordinary netizens and posted comments about the presidential candidates and
their political platforms on the internet.
- Contentious issues in the
presidential election - such as the creation of Sejong City, the free school
lunch program, the 'four rivers' project and the Korea-U.S. Free Trade
Agreement - were the main subjects of their online posts. The agents
unilaterally supported the government’s position and accused all opponents of
the government's position of being "agents of North Korea." This was
clearly illegal political activity in violation of the NIS Act, which prohibits
NIS agents from political involvement.
- In the weeks leading up to
the presidential election, the NIS, under the guise of eradicating so-called
'North Korean agents’, openly intervened in the election. NIS agents put up
5,333 online comments on 15 websites. The Prosecutor General’s office
identified 1,704 comments posted by NIS agents as political involvement and 73
comments as direct intervention in the presidential election, and indicted the
former NIS director as well as the chief of the Seoul Metropolitan Police
Agency. The Prosecutor General's investigation was limited to only one section
of twelve sections under the Psychological Warfare Division.
- Moreover it was discovered
that the NIS agents used an automation program to systemically retweet millions
of comments about the presidential election. According to the Prosecutor
General, it took less than one second to retweet millions of comments through
hundreds of accounts.
- It is also notable that a
civilian known as Lee used five of the sixteen online IDs that belonged to NIS
agent Kim Ha-young. Approximately 92 million Korean won was wired to Lee's bank
account from the NIS. Lee, during the last general election,
was in charge of planning in the campaign of a
lawmaker (whose name we only know as Kim, based on court documents) of the
Saenuri Party. Lee and Kim are former classmates and alumni of Yonsei
University, where they both majored in political science and diplomacy.
- The online comments and
tweets posted by the NIS agents exploit and aggravate regional tensions and
include unspeakable expressions. For example, an NIS agent who goes by the
online alias ‘jwa-ik hyo-su’ posted comments such as "Kill all Cheollado
savages," degrading the Honam region, and distorted the history of the May
18 Gwangju Democratic Movement by calling it a riot.
- Although the truth of the
NIS’ interference in the presidential election was uncovered and exposed by former
Chief of Investigations Kwon Eun-hee of the Soo-Seo Police Department, a search and seizure warrant was denied by the order of
former Chief Kim Yong-pan of the Seoul
Metropolitan Police Agency. The police made an official presentation denying
any evidence of illegal NIS online activity before the presidential election,
and ignored all digital evidence found by the Soo-Seo Police and Seoul
Metropolitan Police.
- Most significantly, the
ruling Saenuri Party was involved in covering up the NIS’ interference in the
presidential election. Kwon Young-se, then-senior official of Park Geun-hye’s
election campaign, was found to have had a conversation with former NIS Chief
Won Se-hoon about acquiring the so-called ‘NLL transcript' (referring to a
transcript of the 2007 Inter-Korea Summit in which former South Korean
President Roh Moo-hyun was alleged to have proposed changing the Northern Limit
Line), which was in NIS possession. Furthermore, Kim Moo-sung, then-chief of
Park Geun-hye’s election campaign, was found to have cited parts of the NLL
transcript verbatim in his stump speech in Busan. The day before, former
Chief Kim Yong-pan of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency had had a meeting at a restaurant near the Blue House. All
this points to a connection between the
Saenuri Party, the NIS and the police, and President Park Geun-hye should be
held accountable. It was only through the power of the people’s candlelight
protests, with UPP at the helm, that the truth of NIS' crimes was finally
exposed.
2. Candlelight - Hotter than the Summer Heat Wave
- The candlelight protest
against the NIS’ political interference was first held in Sejong-ro, Seoul on
June 21. About 500 citizens participated in the protest organized by the 21stCentury Korean Federation of University Student Councils. One week later on
June 28, more than 5,000 people gathered to join the protest organized by the Civil
Society Emergency Task Force, which consists of 284 civil society
organizations. In the next 50 days, participation grew steadily to about 50,000
in Seoul alone.
- Compared to the
candlelight protests against U.S. beef import in 2008, the growth rate is
relatively slow. In 2008, the first vigil began with 20,000 people on May 2,
grew to 50,000 in 30 days and topped one million people across the country by
June. But considering the harsh conditions the NIS protests endured - such as
the record-long rainy season that lasted 49 days, the extreme heat wave, and
the complete indifference of the mainstream media - the candlelight, it seems,
will not be easily extinguished.
- In order to divert public
attention from its political involvement in the election, the NIS leaked the
so-called ‘NLL transcript’ to raise the specter of a national security threat.
The ruling power’s strategy, however, has now backfired. The anger of the
people is turning against the Park Geun-hye administration for tacitly allowing
and sometimes actively leading attacks against democracy.
- At the candlelight
protests, the Civil Society Emergency Task Force called for President Park
Geun-hye’s apology, a guarantee that the NIS will not interfere in domestic
political affairs, the dismissal of NIS Director Nam Jae-jun, and reform of the
NIS. Student unions of Seoul National University, Ewha Women’s University,
Duksung Women’s University, Pusan National University, Sookmyung Women’s
University and Chonnam National University held a demonstration in front of the
Saenuri party headquarters and criticized the party for conducting a deceptive
parliamentary investigation and evading responsibility for NIS' involvement in
the presidential election. The Network of Professors and Researchers Concerned
about the State of Affairs, composed of 1,900 members, including professors in
70 universities, held a demonstration in front of the NIS. 2,124
Catholic priests - 43% of the priests - signed the
Declaration on the State of Affairs. Even the Archdiocese of Daegu, which kept
silent during the 1987 June Uprising, issued a declaration signed by about 200
priests - the first of such kind in 102 years.
- To mollify the growing
candlelight protest, the ruling Saenuri Party reluctantly agreed to a parliamentary
investigation of the NIS’ illegal online campaign. However the 50-day
investigation was sabotaged by the NIS as its witnesses refused to take oaths
or answer questions, and some even used masks to shield their faces.
- The fight against the NIS
for its interference in the presidential election is now calling for the
appointment of an independent special prosecutor. The movement to dismantle the
NIS drew a clear line in the sand between the Park Geun-hye administration and
the democratic forces, and neither side is willing to yield. The demand to
dissolve the NIS is no longer just a call for political reform, but has now
become an imperative for the entire people's movement.
- While the candlelight
protests against U.S. beef import was limited to criticizing the lack of
policies and institutions designed to protect public health, this time, the
protest against the NIS targets the reactionary forces themselves, and is
gaining momentum despite attempts at sabotage so systemic and consistent that
it's hard not to believe that the administration is behind it. The struggle has
now become a death duel between the NIS and the people. More severe persecution
will trigger an even bigger reaction.
3. UPP - Guardian of Peace and Democracy
- Not a single day passed in
2013 without the UPP working for the people. Soon after reorganizing the
party’s leadership with Representative Lee Jung-hee at its center, UPP faced
urgent political and social conditions. From March to May, when
the Korean peninsula fell into a crisis of intensifying war threats, UPP organized a wave of anti-war actions calling for peace
across the country. It was in fact the
only political party calling for peace. The Party proposed to solve the crisis
not through confrontation but dialogue, and insisted “Not another Korean War.”
It also proposed signing a Peace Treaty as a fundamental solution.
- UPP Representative Lee
Jung-hee issued an urgent appeal on March 6, calling for talks between the
relevant states to address the crisis of war threats and encouraging citizens
to join the anti-war peace movement. It was UPP that continued to promote a
peaceful solution through dialogue amidst the urgent crisis when a military
conflict seemed unavoidable after new sanctions against North Korea and the
ROK-US joint military drill.
- UPP held an urgent joint
meeting of its regional branch chairs on March 23 and organized the ‘5,000
Activists against War and for Peace’ campaign, affirming its determination to
make the entire country aspire for peace amidst the crisis of growing war
threats. Regional branch chairs insisted on a resolution to resist a war that
will "only result in co-destruction" and declare that a peaceful
resolution through dialogue and negotiation is the only way to prevent war. The resolution also called on the U.S., one
of the direct parties of the Armistice, to “begin dialogue with North Korea
immediately,” and called on the Park Geun-hye admnistration to “dispatch a
special envoy to North Korea and launch an inter-Korean dialogue.”
- The 5,000 UPP activists
collected 76,888 signatures
calling for peace and delivered them to the Blue House on May 2. 'Peace trainings,' organized to raise
awareness of party members, was attended by 10,000 members. In July, UPP held
the International Peace March and the International Peace Symposium to enhance
solidarity with overseas scholars and peace activists.
- On
April 25, Legislator Lee Seok-ki presented to the
Prime Minister a proposal for a declaration of a permanent ceasefire through
four-party talks as a solution to the present crisis. Legislator Lee called on
President Park Geun-hye to discuss the proposal in her meeting with President
Obama during her state visit to the U.S. in early May. He announced, “If
President Park Geun-hye advocates for the declaration of a permanent ceasefire
through four-party talks following a trust-building process, UPP will lend our
full support.” In this way, whether on the streets or inside the halls of
Parliament, UPP was always on the front lines opposing the outbreak of war.
- As soon as the findings of
the Prosecutor General's investigation of the NIS’ illegal interference in the
presidential election was released, student members of UPP boldly held the
first street march, which became the catalyst for the candlelight protests. UPP
Legislator Lee Sang-gyu exposed the NIS' interference in the presidential
election by analyzing CCTV materials during the parliamentary investigation and
staged a hunger strike in front of the Blue House to demand accountability from
President Park Geun-hye. As a result, UPP gained popular support. Public
approval rating for the party increased from 1% in 2012 to 6% in 2013, with
more than 10% among people in their 40s.
- The people came to clearly
recognize whose side UPP is on and what UPP stands for. Its efforts for peace
and leadership in the candlelight struggle against the NIS provided UPP an
important opportunity to work with the people and overcome its negative public
image of being branded a "pro-North Korean party," as well as a small
opening for forging an alliance of all opposition forces. It was at this
precise moment - when UPP was regaining popular support, the frontline of
popular struggle was being restored, and opposition forces were beginning to
align - that the NIS launched its strike against UPP.
4. Government’s Counterattack for Survival, Resurrection of Yushin
and Political Persecution
- The Blue House and the
NIS, facing an unprecedented crisis due to the revelation of the NIS’ illegal
campaign, launched a massive counterattack on August 28 to turn the table. The NIS issued warrants for search and
seizure and the arrest of ten former and current members of UPP’s Gyeonggi
Province branch, including Legislator Lee Seok-ki. Three were arrested. The ‘conspiracy for rebellion’
charge was revived 33 years after former President Kim Dae-jung was arrested on
the same charge in 1980.
- Before this, the NIS had
tried to use the 'NLL transcript' as a wild card to divert criticism over its
illegal election campaign. But the plan had backfired and the number of
candlelight protest participants had increased from 20,000 to 30,000, then
50,000 and 100,000. Finally, the NIS
fabricated the ‘rebellion conspiracy’ case. This time as well, a manipulated
transcript was presented as evidence.
- The NIS leaked the
so-called transcript to the media and alleged that Legislator Lee Seok-ki
convened a meeting of 'RO' (Revolutionary Organization) on May 12 to plot a
rebellion. The fact, however, is that the meeting was organized by the Chair of
UPP’s Gyeonggi branch in consultation with other executives. Legislator Lee was
invited as a lecturer to the party's membership gathering. After his lecture,
the participants had group discussions on ways to prevent a war and realize peace
on the Korean Peninsula.
- There is no statement in
the so-called transcript that shows that Legislator Lee ordered or conspired a
rebellion. On the contrary, it shows that the legislator explicitly told the
participants not to carry a gun or a knife. But the NIS and the mainstream
media opted not to report on that fact.
- Moreover, some of the
participants’ comments in the NIS' transcript was severely distorted to the
point of fabrication. The NIS handling of this case is no different from when
it manipulated former President Roh Moo-hyun's comments
in the so-called 'NLL transcript' to claim that he
gave up the Northern Limit Line (NLL) to North Korea. The NIS and the
conservative media produce fabricated and distorted reports to smear UPP in a
witch hunt-style trial by media and openly declare their intention to dismantle
UPP.
- The ruling Saenuri Party
and the opposition Democratic Party passed the arrest motion for Legislator Lee
Seok-ki in the National Assembly solely based on the NIS’ unilateral allegation.
The next day on September 5, an arrest warrant was issued.
- On September 6, the
Saenuri Party submitted a bill, sponsored by all the legislators in its party,
to expel Legislator Lee from the National Assembly. The Ministry of Justice
established the Task Force on Unconstitutional Political Parties and
Organizations to review measures to dissolve UPP and expel its lawmakers from
the National Assembly.
- It is clear that the Blue
House and the NIS conducted an illegitimate surveillance, bribed
an informant, and revived an outdated charge of
'conspiring a rebellion' to avert its own crisis. It is trying to intimidate
the democratic forces in order to silence and divide the growing national
candlelight resistance, which calls on President Park Geun-hye to take
responsibility. The smear campaign against UPP is political persecution aimed
at destroying the party, which spearheaded the campaign for reform of the NIS,
and a warning shot to the progressive and democratic forces. The so-called
'conspiracy for rebellion' is a fabricated case by the NIS to exaggerate its
own importance amidst growing pressure for its dissolution.
5. NIS - the One that Needs to be Dissolved
- The transcript of the
so-called 'conspiracy for rebellion' contains comments that are much more
damaging and sensational than those in the 'NLL transcript'. These statements
were all fabricated based on the false testimony of an informant who was bribed
by the NIS.
- Just as in the so-called
'Seoul Municipal Government Employee Spy' case, in which the defendant was
found not guilty, the NIS is notorious for having fabricated 'spy cases' for
the last several decades. This time, the NIS bribed an informant to make false
statements about a conspiracy for rebellion that allegedly includes plans to
sabotage communication facilities and police stations.
- There is no practical
threat of a rebellion nor a specific plan or even physical force capable of
usurping national territory or subverting the constitution. Moreover, an
individual’s opinion or expression should be protected under the right to
freedom of thought and expression. Sadly, the reality of the current situation
in Korea is that based solely on what one has said, without any concrete plan
or physical action, one can be arrested and punished on charges of plotting a
rebellion under the National Security Law.
- The need to prepare for
the possibility of war is not just something that's behind us in the past but
reflects the current reality of a divided Korea in its 60th year since the
signing of the armistice. The Korean War is not yet over, and without a
permanent peace treaty, it can resume at any time. Worrying about a potential
collision between North Korea’s nuclear program and the US’ nuclear umbrella
with its high-tech stealth bombers flying over our territory is not out of step
with today's reality. It is very much a part of living in a divided country
still dominated by anti-communist and anti-North Korea ideology.
- The materialization of
anti-communist and anti-North Korea ideology through the National Security Law
or a fabricated rebellion conspiracy case serves to strengthen the security
state. The present administration exploits inter-Korean conflict to force
anti-communism on the people. What we're witnessing today is how anti-communism
manifests as violent authority and becomes a measure of suppression and
persecution.
- However, the candlelight
protest grows brighter night after night. The 100,000 members of UPP are boldly
confronting the persecution and witch hunt launched by the government, the NIS
and the conservative media. UPP is regrouping its forces and growing stronger
everyday. Civil society organizations are united to fight against government
repression and protect democracy. Unless the NIS bribes the judiciary, the
fabricated 'rebellion conspiracy' case can never win. Rather, it will decide
the fate of the NIS and the Park Geun-hye administration. It is the NIS, not
the UPP, that will dissolve.
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Q&A: The Truth behind the
"Conspiracy for Rebellion" Charge
Q1. Wasn’t the May 12 meeting an RO
gathering to conspire a rebellion?
- The meeting was a closed
meeting organized by UPP’s Gyeonggi branch for party executives and members.
Legislator Lee Seok-ki was invited as a lecturer.
- It is absolutely false that it was a gathering of 130 members of
an ‘underground organization’.
Q2. Is RO an actual anti-government
organization?
- Only in the imagination of
the NIS. There is not a single piece of
evidence to substantiate their mention of guns, bombs or violent actions.
- There is no evidence of
the existence of such an organization - not even basic information on when it was founded or who its
founding members are.
Q3. According to media reports,
Legislator Lee Seok-ki ordered people to prepare fire arms and use military
force. Is this true?
- The legislator did not
make such a remark. It is a malicious distortion taken out of context.
- On the contrary, he
appealed to people to fulfill their mission as progressives to oppose war and
realize peace in the worst case event that a war breaks out.
- What he meant by “Let us counter war” is not to start a
war but to build the peace movement to oppose war.
- His comments were in the
same vein as when he expressed concerns on increased tensions on the Korean
Peninsula in his personal report on March 22 as well as on April 25 in the
National Assembly.
- As the participants of the
meeting have long experiences of working in progressive movement circles, their
jargon may sound unfamiliar or strange to others, but the main thrust of Lee's
lecture was ‘Oppose war and realize peace.’
Q4. Doesn’t the NIS have clear physical
evidence, such as the meeting transcript?
- First, the NIS should
disclose whether or not the transcript was obtained by due process of law and
verify that there is no distortion or fabrication in the leaked transcript.
- In the transcript, a
mention of "Jeol-du-san" (the Catholic Martyrs’ Shrine) was changed
to "gyeol-jeon" (the final battle) shrine; an explicit appeal not to
carry guns was distorted to an order to secure guns.
- There is a significant gap
between the transcript and the memory and understanding of the participants who
were at the meeting.
- The NIS has already been found to have distorted and illegally
leaked the transcript of the inter-Korea
Summit. It purposefully changed one letter in former President Roh Moo-hyun’s remark to make it seem as though
he assumed a submissive posture during the summit.
Q5. Is it true that Legislator Lee sang
the 'Red Flag' song at the May 12 meeting?
- He did not sing the 'Red
Flag' song at the meeting. But it is true that some activists sometimes do sing
the song.
- Contrary to media reports,
'Red Flag’ is not a North Korean song. The tune is from a German folk song. In
the late 1880s, workers in the UK borrowed the tune and created the ‘Red Flag,’
then made it popular across the world. The song was introduced in Korea in the
1930s and sung as a protest song among the anti-Japanese independence fighters.
- It is incidentally also
the theme song of Manchester United, which Korean footballer Park Ji-sung plays
for. It is also the original version of the chorus of the song ‘Pine Tree.’
Q6. Did Legislator Lee betray state
secrets from the National Assembly to RO ?
- All of his requests for
documents were part of regular and official parliamentary activities to prepare
for budget reviews or parliamentary inspections of government offices. The
materials he received were approved by the relevant government offices.
- Regarding his request for
documents related to wartime operational control -
▸ He made the request to the Ministry of Defense for the purpose of
verifying an April 2 report entitled “S.Korea, U.S.
to Keep Combined Forces Command” in Chosun Ilbo
▸ The Ministry of Defense
responded that nothing had been confirmed related to the Combined Forces
Command and cast doubt on the newspaper's report.
- Regarding his request for
the list of North Korean defectors featured in a KBS program -
▸ He requested a total of seven materials including the program
script in response to allegations that the program, the stated mission of which
is to promote the shared heritage of the people of North and South Korea, was
fanning north-south tensions by featuring the story of North Korean defectors.
▸ KBS responded that it was
difficult to make public North Korean defector-related information. The
legislator accepted the explanation and didn’t ask for additional documents.
- Regarding his request for
information on contingency plans of broadcasting systems for electrical power
outages -
▸ Amidst increased public concern on the possibility of blackouts
due to the shortage of power, he requested documents to the Ministry of
Science, ICT and the Future Planning and the Korea Communications Commission
for the purpose of assessing the present situation and creating appropriate
countermeasures.
- Regarding his request for
information on the Korea Space Launch Vehicle -
▸ The materials he received were those already reported to the
National Assembly for budget
deliberations. He requested
them to do a feasibility assessment as well as examine its budget allocation in
comparison with other R&D budgets as the development of the Korea Space
Launch Vehicle is one of President Park’s national priority agendas. He also
wanted to learn more about it as he was scheduled to observe the launching of
the Arirang 5.
Q7. Were the Russian rubles and U.S.
dollars found in his shoe cupboard operational funds for RO?
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