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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.
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.
Prosecutors Tuesday requested arrest warrants for a former defense minister and former chief of the Coast Guard for allegedly impeding a probe into the 2020 murder of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in the Yellow Sea.
Former defense minister Suh Wook was questioned by prosecutors on Thursday over allegations he suppressed evidence related the killing of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in 2020.
Prosecutors raided the homes of two high-ranking security officials from the Moon Jae-in administration over suspicions they suppressed evidence about North Korea's 2020 killing of a South Korean official in the Yellow Sea.
North Korea would use nuclear weapons if South Korea launched a pre-emptive attack, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong-un threatened Tuesday.
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un blasted South Korea's defense minister for highlighting Seoul's "preemptive strike" capabilities and threatened the South for making such "reckless" remarks, Pyongyang's state media reported Sunday.
The defense chiefs of South Korea, the United States and Japan held phone talks on Thursday morning and decided to cooperate closely on dealing with the North Korean missile threat, according to the Defense Ministry.
The United States and South Korea will update their joint wartime strategy for the first time in 11 years to factor in North Korea's enhanced nuclear and missile weapons capabilities, the two countries' defense chiefs announced Thursday.
Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook, left, and his Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Ahmed Zaki Mohamed, salute at the Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo on Wednesday.
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