Sunday, December 16, 2012

Controversy over Korean spy agency’s alleged election intervention

"The ruling Saenuri party and main opposition Democratic United Party remain at loggerheads over whether state-run intelligence agency tried to illegally intervene in the presidential election slated for Dec. 19.
On Tuesday, the DUP claimed that a National Intelligence Service employee was posting slanderous comments about the party’s presidential candidate Moon Jae-in on the Internet.
“Recently we received a tip-off that NIS-affiliated psychosomatic information team had been reorganized into psychosomatic information bureau, and the members of the bureau had been working to make sure Moon loses in the upcoming election,” said DUP spokesman Jin Seong-jun.
Jin claimed a 29-year-old female employee surnamed Kim had been working for the past three months to “slander opposition candidates and manipulate public opinion” from a studio apartment in Yeoksam-dong, southern Seoul..."

at http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/9833

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