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Defense Minister Seo-wook answers at the National Assembly Audit of the National Defense Committee of the National Assembly held at the Ministry of Defense in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 7th. [사진 제공 = 국방일보]It was revealed that the Ministry of National Defense decided that there was no possibility for North Korea on the day of Lee’s disappearance in connection with the incident of Lee Mo (47), an official of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries who was killed by the forces North Koreans. The military authorities have explained that it has been determined as a “voluntary visit to North Korea” situation based on interception information obtained from the moment that Lee was discovered on a North Korean ship the day after his disappearance.
However, controversy is expected that the military and maritime police failed to accelerate rescue activities as they did not even consider moving north for a day after Lee’s disappearance.
On the 7th, Defense Minister Seo-wook responded to a questionnaire, Ha Tae-gyeong, a member of the People’s Power, in the national audit of the National Defense Committee of the National Assembly to the Ministry of National Defense, saying: ” Why did it not use the international trade network to request North Korea’s cooperation at the time it recognized Lee’s disappearance? ” “On the first day of the disappearance, I decided it was not North Korea.”
Minister Seo said, “I received a report on (last month) 21 (the day Mr. Lee disappeared) and I asked the job-level staff, ‘Is there a possibility to go to North Korea? ‘ It is explained that the military authorities and the maritime police did not request cooperation from the North for cooperation using the communication network of international commercial ships, since it was determined that there was no possibility that Lee, who was missing at that time, could move. North The point where Mr. Lee disappeared was only 10 kilometers from the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the West Sea.
The international commercial ship communications network is a communications network that communicates with each other through a common frequency to be used in a certain maritime area. Ships at a certain distance can communicate with each other at any time by setting this common frequency, and they can also listen to the content of communication between other ships. North Korean ships are no exception. Representative Ha Tae-kyung noted, “At the time of the disappearance, there is a possibility that Mr. Lee may flow to North Korea, so he should have said, ‘There is a missing person, so please cooperate if they find him. ‘on the North Korean ship using the international trade network. ” In response, the minister reiterated that “on the day of the disappearance, we could not judge that we were going north while conducting a search operation led by the coastal police.”
Military authorities announced on the 24th that it was discovered by a North Korean ship off the coast of Tozangot in Ongjin-gun, South Hwanghae province at 3:30 p.m. on the 22nd, the day after Lee’s disappearance, and At this moment, Lee had grasped the circumstances that expressed his intention of “ Wolbuk ”. Opposition lawmakers harshly criticized North Korea for not asking for cooperation, such as a request for Lee’s extradition, on the 22nd, when military authorities captured the situation where Lee was found in northern waters and at that time.
Minister Seo explained: “The situation at the time the North discovered Mr. Lee was only one of espionage, and there was a risk of taking action against North Korea with this espionage.” The ruling Democratic Party also went on to say: “If we respond immediately, our special information (SI) will be exposed to the North.” Representative Hwang Hee, secretary of the Defense Committee of the National Assembly Democratic Party, said: “The SI really only prepares for the first thing that North Korea completely invades South Korea.” “The current combined commander of the Republic of Korea and the United States (Commander Robert Abrams) also expressed concern about the exposure of the SI,” Seo said.
Regarding the fact that there is a significant difference between the content of the Lee incident that North Korea revealed through a notice on behalf of the Unification Front Office on the 25th and the announcement by our military authorities, he said: ” We are analyzing the difference between the North Korean warning and our intelligence. ” Previously, the announcement by the military authorities and the notice sent from the North gave different explanations, such as whether Lee was willing to visit North Korea and whether the body was burned. In North Korea’s claim that they “fired upon the determination of the lawsuit (North Korean Navy Control Justice),” the minister maintained the existing opinion, saying: “We believe that the circumstances (analyzed by the military ) they are correct”.
Earlier, aware of the controversy over low-cost North Korea, the minister said in a greeting before the start of the national inspection: “The military tension continues, as is the threat of a legitimate search operation in our waters without respond to the request for a joint investigation. ” It was a statement about North Korea’s alleged “invasion of territorial waters” in the search for Lee’s body by the army and maritime police. The army and coastal police are searching for bodies just south of the NLL in the West Sea.
Minister Seo said on the 10th that North Korea’s actions planned for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Labor Party, “we are determined to hold demonstrations armed with strategic weapons.”
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