Park Ji-won, head of the National Intelligence Service, attended the National Assembly Information Committee on the 22nd. In a recent closed meeting, Director Park expressed strong regret over the opposition parties over the suspicion of the temple. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
“The NIS’ position on the disclosure of information on the temple is clear. Although illegal inspections in the past are also wrong, the Moon Jae-in government, which has been insulated from politics, is not more correct to use or allow it to be used for politics.”
This is what the Director of National Intelligence Service Park Ji-won said at a recent closed discussion regarding the controversy over the NIS inspection document. Park emphasized that “the NIS will respond according to the law so that it is neither overflowing nor insufficient.” Regarding the inspection documents that have been released one after another through the media, he explained, “It is because the data of the applicants who requested and received the public request according to the Supreme Court ruling went to the media.”
Director Park expressed strong regret for the opposition to the opposition over the suspicion of the temple. Director Park “It is very regrettable to try to bring the NIS back into the political sphere, such as’election intervention’”Saying “This is to retreat the reform of the NIS”Said. In particular, Park said, “We need to stop the vicious circle where the parties request information and this is disclosed to the media, a battle is triggered in the political sphere, and the NIS goes back to the middle of politics.” He said, “Because I can’t fight for 60 years of the NIS until any time, I proposed a process through a special law on the intelligence committee at the level of ideas.”
According to officials from the National Assembly Intelligence Committee, Park attended the National Assembly Information Committee on the 16th and requested that the ’60 years of illegal inspection black history treatment special law’ be created so that the information on the past illegal inspection can be discarded. The main point is to set a certain point in time, and to discard the information generated before that time, and to discard the information created after that through appropriate processes such as disclosure of the parties. Previously, Lee Nak-yeon, the leader of the Democratic Party, also said on the 24th that “we must pursue a request for disclosure of individual information and a special law.”
Director Park complained that it was not easy to grasp the entire data. Director Park said, “When a request for disclosure of information comes in, the NIS checks the data individually. There is a limit to preemptively verifying the entire data. Even if you try to report the status data as requested by the National Assembly, it is possible to open the DB (database) and find the data.” “The NIS has no reason to hide the data,” he said. “In order to respond to and cooperate with requests for information disclosure, the TF currently in operation will be upgraded to a formal organization,” he said.
Regarding the suspicion of illegal inspection documents under the National Intelligence Service, the Democratic Party has raised suspicion of involvement with the preliminary candidate of the Busan Mayor Park Hyung-jun and Hwang Gyo-an, a former representative of the Free Korea Party (now the power of the people). Accordingly, the people’s strength is “selective information disclosure is a new kind of political intervention,” and they are confronting that, “From the Kim Dae-jung administration, first disclose information on temples such as provincial government, interception, and tailing.”
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