Discipline for those involved in distorting investigation of South Korean civil servant killed by North Korean military

The South Korean Board of Audit announced on the 7th that officials from the Ministry of Defense, the Maritime Police, and other officials concealed the facts and distorted the investigation results in the case of Lee Dae-joon, a member of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries who was shot and killed by the North Korean military in September 2020. 13 people
announced that they had demanded discipline and caution. Six agencies, including the National Security Office, were also alerted. The Board of Audit announced on June 16, 2022, the contents of previous announcements by the Ministry of Defense, the Maritime Police, etc.
In response to the investigation's findings that ``we could not find any evidence that Mr. Lee admitted to North Korea that he had traveled to North Korea,'' audits were conducted of nine agencies, including the Ministry of Defense and the Maritime Police. As a result of the audit, the government
Despite the occurrence of a crisis situation that required a government-wide response, related organizations such as the Japan Maritime Police Agency, the Ministry of Unification, and the Ministry of Defense did not properly understand and communicate the relevant situation or did not take related follow-up measures. Ta
It turned out that it was. When Mr. Lee was alive in North Korean waters, the relevant organizations did not report or communicate the situation, nor did they take any steps to protect or rescue him. In particular, the concealment of the fact of Mr. Lee's murder and incineration, and the accountability of Mr.
To avoid this, the Ministry of Defense deleted related secret materials and issued notices to North Korea as if Lee were missing, without mentioning the fact that he had been killed. The maritime police said Lee was in North Korean waters.
As if she had not been discovered, the search operation continued at the spot where she first disappeared. The Ministry of Unification unfairly changed the timing of recognition of the incident. In addition, the Ministry of Defense and other organizations have used inaccurate facts not found in military intelligence to conduct official business operations.
It has been revealed that an analysis report was prepared and released to the media that determined that the suspect had left the North voluntarily. Although the National Intelligence Service analyzes that voluntary departure from North Korea is unclear, it is not clear that the relevant ministers
did not report to council. Although the Ministry of Defense knew that the military had consistently determined that the body had been incinerated, it changed its determination to ``It is unclear whether the body was incinerated,'' in accordance with the policy of the National Security Office. The National Intelligence Service
After analyzing the case as "incineration of suspended matter", the decision was changed to "incineration of suspended matter" despite the lack of new evidence.