Seoul arrests former national security director over a suspected cover-up surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official near the rivals’ sea boundary in 2020
Suh served as the former president's spy chief before being appointed as national security director two months before the death of fisheries official Lee Dae-jun.
Suh didn’t answer reporters’ questions about the allegations on Friday as he appeared at the court for a review over the prosecution’s warrant request. Critics say the Former President Moon Jae-in's government went out of its way to paint Lee as unsympathetic as it tried to appease a nuclear-armed rival with a brutal human rights record.Suh Hoon’s arrest came as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative government investigates his liberal predecessor’s handling of that killing and another border incident the same year.
A previous inquiry by South Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection concluded that officials from Moon’s government made no meaningful attempt to rescue Lee after learning that he was drifting in waters near the Koreas’ western sea boundary in September 2020.
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