Defense Intelligence Command: "June Awareness of 'Military Civilian Confidential Leak'... Not Hacking"

On the 30th, the Defense Intelligence Command (DIC) stated that a civilian employee under its command is under investigation on charges of leaking military secrets, including personal information of our military intelligence personnel, to Chinese nationals. The DIC revealed that "the incident was recognized around June and was learned through notification from related intelligence agencies."

According to briefing by Lee Seong-gwon, the People Power Party's secretary of the National Assembly Intelligence Committee, and Park Seon-won, the Democratic Party's secretary, the DIC reported this during a closed full meeting of the National Assembly Intelligence Committee on the same day.

The DIC is known to have stated that the leak was definitely not caused by hacking. After becoming aware of the situation, the DIC excluded the civilian employee from duties, immediately recalled personnel dispatched overseas, prohibited agent business trips, and conducted a thorough system inspection.

Representative Park said, "The civilian employee will be investigated by the Defense Counterintelligence Command (Gukgun Bangcheop Command)," adding, "Although this incident will cause considerable damage, the Defense Intelligence Agency took very swift measures to prevent damage to itself."

Civilian employee A, affiliated with the DIC, is under military investigation and has had an arrest warrant issued on charges of leaking up to thousands of pieces of information, including 'black agent' information that disguises identity as unrelated to our government agencies, to Chinese nationals. There are suspicions that this Chinese individual may be an intelligence agent of the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau.