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Seoul — A major South Korean intelligence agency said on Wednesday that it had filed criminal charges against two former chiefs for abuse of power in a North Korean-related case during the previous administration.
The NIS has said it has filed a complaint with the public prosecutor's office, alleging that Suh Hoon and Park Jie-won, who led the agency under the Moon Jae-in administration, ordered the public prosecutor's office. Investigations to end and destroy intelligence documents, respectively.
Sue's case included a 2019 decision to deport two North Korean fishermen suspected of killing 16 seafarers.
The Park incident included the 2020 shooting death of South Korean fishery officials by the North Korean army.
Reuters couldn't contact Sue for comment, but Park denied the NIS accusation as "fiction" in a Facebook post.
"I will reveal the truth in honor," said Park, who accused the new government of politicizing NIS.
It was submitted after President Yoon Seok-yul, who took office in May, suggested that the case could be reviewed.
He criticized his predecessor's North Korean policy as "obedience" for the March presidential election, which was won by conservative Yun.
In a statement, Sue said Sue was suspected of forcing authorities to end the investigation of North Korean fishermen and create false documents.
The Moon administration, eager to improve relations with North Korea, sent two North Korean fishermen back to North Korea. They were "dangerous criminals" who killed their colleagues across the sea border and would do harm if accepted by Korean society.
NIS said Park was suspected of violating the procedure and destroying intelligence reports on an incident involving South Korean fisheries officials.
South Korean officials went missing at sea in September 2020 while working as a fishery inspector.
North Korean officials later shot him to death and set his body on fire. The incident shocked many Koreans and heightened cross-border tensions.
Immediately after the incident, North Korea's official KCNA news agency accused South Korean opposition lawmakers of controversy over it and prevented South Korea from crossing the maritime border into North Korea. I accused him of not having it.
According to the North Korean news agency, North Korean soldiers acted for self-defense when fishermen tried to escape. (Report by Choi Soo-Hyan and Shin Hyun-Hee, edited by Robert Barsel)