Probe illegal eavesdropping from the beginning.
The prosecution has procured a tape of the illegal tapping by the National Intelligence Service during the period of the former Kim Daejoong government. The tape of the illegal bugging includes contents that a powerful politician required a journalist to help a candidate for the presidency in 2002. This is the same contents that a member of the GNP disclosed as a suspected document of illegal eavesdropping before the presidential campaign in 2002. It is time to reveal whether or not illegal tapping had been conducted to look into political affairs during the DJ regime.
Before the 2002 presidential election, when there was a dispute over illegal bugging in political circles, the Blue House and NIS strongly denied the accusation and the ruling party counterattacked the opposition. Now the ex-DJ regime's illegal eavesdropping has been revealed so clearly that they can deny the fact no longer. It is natural that they should admit the errors of their past.
When listening to the tape, it is suspected that the DJ regime used the same illegal bugging operation team as the YS regime. It was called "Milim," literally meaning beautiful lady sleeping in the woods, which is the name of the bugging operation when the government's bugging was legal.
Suspicion is rising of another tape of illegal bugging. The tape was found in the house of the ex-head of the NIS so it is thought that there might be shady transactions. The prosecution should probe whether the DJ regime committed illegal bugging or not, even after March, 2002 when they announced they had abolished illegal bugging. The prosecution should also investigate the process of releasing the information, and the confiscated tape, as well as probe deep into the contents of the documents of the suspected illegal eavesdropping from the beginning, that were disclosed during the 2002 presidential campaign. Political bugging is one of the most serious crimes. They should strictly punish the people concerned so that illegal eavesdropping never occurs in South Korea again.
The ex-head of the NIS during the DJ regime, who denied the illegal bugging, should reveal the truth to the people. They shouldn't forget that people know that some politicians strongly reacted a few days ago, as soon as the NIS revealed the past illegal bugging.
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 / 입력시간: 2005. 09.28. 09:50
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