The ruling party gives up the right to conduct an anti-aircraft investigation

Head of the National Intelligence Service Park Ji-won (right) talks to Seon-won Park, Deputy Executive Director Kim Sang-gyun and Second Deputy Director Jeong-Hyun Park (left to right) before the meeting General Information Committee meeting at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the 24th. On this day, the ruling Democratic Party, the ruling party, voted a bill to amend the National Intelligence Service Law, which transfers the right to investigate counterplanes by the Law of the National Intelligence Service. Reporter Oh Jong-taek

On the 24th, the bill to amend the National Intelligence Service Law, which aimed to abolish the right to anti-aircraft research, was approved by the Law subcommittee of the National Assembly Intelligence Committee. Legislators from the opposition party left the conference room against the bill, but the Democratic Party, which has a numerical advantage, handled it alone.

The amendment that passed the so-called day on this day was ▶ to exclude the collection, creation and distribution of national security information, such as the overthrow of anti-aircraft and government from the scope of the NIS functions. ▶ The main point is to abolish the right of the NIS to investigate, but to postpone it for three years. The Democratic Party’s position is that antiaircraft research rights excluded from the scope of the NIS will be further discussed by 2024 and transferred to other investigative agencies. According to the plan announced by the government in September, it is very likely that he will be transferred to the Security Directorate within the National Investigation Headquarters, which is seeking a new establishment under the Ministry of Public Administration and Security. Representative Kim Byeong-gi, Democratic Party Secretary of the Intelligence Service, met with reporters on the day and said: “Right now, the police will be (where investigative power is transferred), but if an agency is established neutral research, can be discussed comprehensively. ”

The power of the people rebelled, saying it should remain a job of the NIS until an independent investigative agency is launched to take over the authority of the anti-aircraft investigation. Representative Ha Tae-gyeong, secretary of the People’s Power of the National Intelligence Service, argued on Facebook the day that “if the police dominate national information and grant the right to anti-aircraft investigation, it will eventually become a five-pronged police.” . Attorney Yang Hong-seok, who was active in the Police Reform Committee in the early days of the Moon Jae-in administration, said: “The transfer of the anti-aircraft function (the national police is in charge of the anti-aircraft investigation) is a policy that requires democratic control of the police and decentralization of the powers and functions of the police, or at least simultaneously. He pointed out that the birth of a great institution that broke the balance and monopolized power was a precursor to the dictatorship ”. The Democratic Party plans to hold a general meeting of the Intelligence Committee on the 27th to decide on the amendments to the NIS Law and discuss it in plenary session before the end of the ordinary National Assembly (December 9).

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