A ruling party lawmaker was questioned by prosecutors Friday about his claim that late President Roh Moo-hyun made remarks undermining the legitimacy of the western sea border during the 2007 inter-Korean summit meeting.

In a parliamentary audit last October, Rep. Chung Moon-hun said that he read the National Intelligence Service’s classified documents on the conversation between Roh and late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during the meeting in Pyongyang six years ago.

Chung argued that Roh told the North’s leader that Seoul would not insist on the Yellow Sea border, called the Northern Limit Line, which Pyongyang refuses to recognize as a legitimate maritime border.

The main opposition Democratic United Party refuted the claims and lodged accusations against several Saenuri lawmakers, including Chung, for spreading false information.

In response, Rep. Chung raised his own libel claims against then-DUP Chairman Lee Hae-chan.

To confirm the contents of the transcripts, prosecutors recently looked at an abstract version of the NIS classified transcripts, after concluding them as public records.

“(Suspicions) turned out to be the truth,” Rep. Chung told reporters before entering the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office around 11:00 a.m.

The lawmaker also said the transcripts should be opened to the public in the interest of the people’s safety.

Prosecutors said they will soon summon Rep. Lee Cheol-woo as well as Saenuri spokesman Park Sun-kyoo to determine if legal charges will be filed.

North Korea has never recognized the NLL, which was unilaterally drawn by the U.S.-led United Nations Command at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. The North demands that the line be drawn farther south.

A number of bloody inter-Korean clashes have occurred near the border. The two sides fought naval gun battles in the area in 1999, 2002 and 2009. In 2010, the North torpedoed a South Korean warship in the area and shelled a South Korean border island. (Yonhap News)
A ruling party lawmaker was questioned by prosecutors Friday about his claim that late President Roh Moo-hyun made remarks undermining the legitimacy of the western sea border during the 2007 inter-Korean summit meeting.

In a parliamentary audit last October, Rep. Chung Moon-hun said that he read the National Intelligence Service’s classified documents on the conversation between Roh and late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during the meeting in Pyongyang six years ago.

Chung argued that Roh told the North’s leader that Seoul would not insist on the Yellow Sea border, called the Northern Limit Line, which Pyongyang refuses to recognize as a legitimate maritime border.

The main opposition Democratic United Party refuted the claims and lodged accusations against several Saenuri lawmakers, including Chung, for spreading false information.

In response, Rep. Chung raised his own libel claims against then-DUP Chairman Lee Hae-chan.

To confirm the contents of the transcripts, prosecutors recently looked at an abstract version of the NIS classified transcripts, after concluding them as public records.

“(Suspicions) turned out to be the truth,” Rep. Chung told reporters before entering the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office around 11:00 a.m.

The lawmaker also said the transcripts should be opened to the public in the interest of the people’s safety.

Prosecutors said they will soon summon Rep. Lee Cheol-woo as well as Saenuri spokesman Park Sun-kyoo to determine if legal charges will be filed.

North Korea has never recognized the NLL, which was unilaterally drawn by the U.S.-led United Nations Command at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. The North demands that the line be drawn farther south.

A number of bloody inter-Korean clashes have occurred near the border. The two sides fought naval gun battles in the area in 1999, 2002 and 2009. In 2010, the North torpedoed a South Korean warship in the area and shelled a South Korean border island. (Yonhap News)