[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] The prosecution investigating the 'West Sea Public Official Shooting Incident' is summoning Seo Hoon, the former National Security Office Director who was the top official in the Moon Jae-in administration's North Korea security line, for questioning on the 24th.
According to the legal community, the Public Investigation Division 1 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Lee Hee-dong) summoned former Director Seo in the morning as a suspect. Initially, Seo was scheduled to appear for questioning the previous day, but it was postponed by one day.
Former Director Seo is suspected of having prematurely concluded that the late Lee Dae-jun, a Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries official who was killed by North Korean soldiers, had 'voluntarily defected to the North' during a ministerial meeting held around 1 a.m. on September 23, 2020, the day after Lee's death, and of instructing related ministries to delete confidential intelligence that contradicted this conclusion.
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