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This photo, provided by the National Intelligence Service, shows the headquarters of the Korean spy agency. [YONHAP]

Spy agency to drop complaints against ex-top officials over alleged cover-up of border killing by North Korea

The NIS said Monday it will drop complaints against former top security officials following their recent acquittal for involvement in an alleged cover-up of the 2020 murder of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korea.

2025.12.29

Relative of the South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korean military in 2020 sheds tears as she attends a press conference about the incident in Seoul on June 17, 2022. [NEWS1]

Moon administration officials tried to cover up killing of South Korean by North: State audit board

The Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) confirmed Thursday that defense officials of the Moon Jae-in administration tried to cover up evidence about the South Korean official killed by the North Korean military in 2020 near the western sea border...

2023.12.7

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Former National Security Adviser Suh Hoon enters a court for interrogation on the death of a fisheries official in December. [YONHAP]

Ex-National Security Adviser Suh Hoon released on bail

Former National Security Adviser Suh Hoon was released on bail and will continue the ongoing trial without physical detention.

2023.4.3

Park Jie-won, former director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), speaks to reporters at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho District, southern Seoul, on Dec. 14. [KIM KYUNG-ROK]

Former NIS chief, ex-defense minister indicted for deleting evidence in fisheries case

Prosecutors indicted without detention former National Intelligence Service (NIS) chief Park Ji-won, former Defense Minister Suh Wook and a former NIS staffer for allegedly deleting evidence related to the murder of a South Korean fisheries official.

2022.12.29

Former Blue House Chief of Staff Noh Young-min, right, speaks in a press conference on the death of a fisheries official in 2020 at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Moon's former chief of staff grilled about murder at sea

Prosecutors grilled Noh Young-min, a former presidential chief of staff, in their investigation into the murder at sea of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in 2020.

2022.12.13

Suh Hoon, former director of the Blue House National Security Office (NSO), is surrounded by reporters at the Seoul Central District Court on Dec. 2. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Former national security adviser Suh indicted for power abuse

Former national security adviser Suh Hoon was indicted Friday for abuse of power and fabricating evidence in the murder at sea of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in 2020.

2022.12.11

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho District, southern Seoul, sought an arrest warrant for Suh Hoon, the former national security adviser, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Arrest warrant sought for former national security adviser Suh Hoon

Prosecutors asked for the arrest of former national security adviser Suh Hoon over allegations that he ordered the deletion of evidence in the murder of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in 2020.

2022.11.29

From left, former National Security Adviser Suh Hoon, former Blue House Chief of Staff Noh Young-min and former National Intelligence Service Director Park Jie-won hold a joint press conference on the death of a fisheries official in 2020 at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, Thursday. [NEWS1]

Blue House bigwigs deny evidence fiddling in 2020 murder at sea

Top security officials from the Moon Jae-in administration denied deleting documents and mishandling the murder of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korea soldiers in September 2020.

2022.10.27

Former Defense Minister Suh Wook, left, and former Coast Guard Commissioner General Kim Hong-hee are questioned at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District, southern Seoul, Friday over their alleged mishandling of the death of a South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korean soldiers in September 2020. The court issued arrest warrants for them early Saturday. [NEWS1]

Former defense minister, ex-Coast Guard chief arrested

Former Defense Minister Suh Wook and former Coast Guard Commissioner General Kim Hong-hee were arrested by prosecutors Saturday over their alleged mishandling of the death of a South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korean soldiers in 2020.

2022.10.23

Lawmakers from the Democratic Party (DP) hold a press conference at the National Assembly in western Seoul Monday condemning the state audit agency for trying to conduct a written investigation of former President Moon Jae-in about his administration’s handling of the South Korean fisheries official killed by North Koreans in 2020. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

DP cries foul over probe of Moon in 2020 murder at sea

The Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) has told former President Moon Jae-in that it wants to question him about the handling of a South Korean fisheries official killed by North Koreans in 2020.

2022.10.3