Ex-spy chief undergoes probe

Ex-spy chief undergoes probe

Park Jie-won, former head of the National Intelligence Service, answers reporters' questions upon arrival at the Seoul Central Prosecutors Office in Seoul on Dec. 14, 2022, to be grilled over the death of a South Korean fisheries official, who was shot to death by North Korean soldiers while drifting in the North's territorial waters in the West Sea in September 2020. Park was accused of involvement in the then Moon Jae-in government's conclusion without sufficient evidence that the fisheries official was killed while attempting to defect to the North. He was also suspected of ordering key security officials to delete internal intelligence reports running counter to the conclusion. (Yonhap)

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