South Korea's Ex-national Security Chief Arrested Over Border Killing
Muhammad Irfan Published December 04, 2022 | 12:00 AM
Seoul, Dec 3 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 3rd Dec, 2022 ) :South Korea on Saturday arrested a former national security chief on suspicion of covering up events surrounding the 2020 murder of a fisheries official by Pyongyang.
President Yoon Suk-yeol is expanding an inquiry into the highly politicised case following accusations that his predecessor mishandled the probe to curry favour with North Korea.
Suh Hoon is the first top official from the presidential office of former leader Moon Jae-in to be arrested over the case.
He is accused of ordering that intelligence reports be destroyed to conceal the killing of fisheries official Lee Dae-jun, who died near the sea border separating North and South Korea.
The former top security official also faces allegations that he manipulated evidence to support the Moon government's controversial claim that the late fisheries official had sought to defect to the North.
Judge Kim Jeong-min of the Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for Suh on Saturday, citing "the seriousness of the crime, the status of the suspect, and a risk of destroying evidence".
A spokesperson for President Yoon's People Power Party confirmed the arrest in a statement.
"Suh Hoon, former chief of the Blue House's National Security Office, was arrested early this morning," Park Jung-ha said.
In October ex-defence minister Suh Wook and former coast guard chief Kim Hong-hee were also arrested over the same case.
President Yoon has been sharply critical of his predecessor's dovish approach towards North Korea, accusing Moon of appeasing Pyongyang.
Yoon's People Power Party on Saturday accused Suh of "failing to protect" and "neglecting" the late fisheries official while security chief.
But the country's opposition has long claimed the investigation is "political revenge" against Moon's administration.
On Saturday they said Suh's arrest was "hard to understand" and they would "defend the truth and justice" against Yoon's "political retaliation".
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