Opposition Lawmaker Does Not Want NIS to be Able to Investigate North Korean Spies
The real reason this lawmaker wants to take away investigative power from the NIS is probably because of all the spies they have found in organizations supporting the Korean left over the years. With that said he is right that most intelligence agencies had off counterintelligence investigations such as in the U.S. where the FBI will investigate counterintelligence threats:
Since its establishment in 1961 as the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has not only collected intelligence on cases related to North Korea, but also investigated them. Come January, the South’s most important intelligence headquarters will be barred from investigating cases related to North Korea.
Rep. Kim Byung-kee of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, a former high-ranking official at the NIS, says prohibiting the intelligence agency from engaging in law enforcement activities — even those concerning North Korea — was necessary to establish democratic control over its security services.
“The intelligence service has become accustomed to flouting legal boundaries on the pretext of protecting national security, and is nearly free from outside control,” the spy-turned-lawmaker told a recent interview with The Korea Herald.
Taking away investigative functions from the NIS is one of the first steps in “institutionalizing democratic control and accountability” of South Korean intelligence, he said, making the case for the contested law that bars NIS involvement in North Korea-related investigations. A key pledge of the previous President Moon Jae-in administration, the revised law was passed by the Democratic Party of Korea without support from the People Power Party.
Korea Herald
You can read more at the link, but Rep. Byung-kee wants the KNP to do the investigations. These are the guys that could not figure out crowd control before the Itaewon crushing tragedy and now he wants them to investigate North Korea spies?
“was necessary to establish democratic control over its security services.”
Or maybe they are copying America…
…where the left has found out if you take away law enforcement power on anything from shoplifting to homeless (druggies) infesting small business areas to border enforcement to etc., it doesn’t matter what kind of legal abominations are flaunted. Nothing will be done about it and disorder will follow.
And commies love disorder. They gain power from disorder. And they have a solution for this disorder everyone will happly accept if it promises relief from the madness (the commies created).
Hard to know here but it smells like the left wants to take power away from those who would bust lefties being lefties.
Rep. (Kim) Byung-kee wants the KNP to do the investigations.
Shirley, Yoon Suk-yeol would be backing the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office for this gig.
We need to arrest the entire Korean opposition party for treason against America.
South Korean commies don’t want their spy organization investigated…shocking.
On the other hand, 99.44% of chinabots do an excreble job of imitating setnaffa.
Which, frankly, ought to embarrass the hell out of them, as I am not very complicated.
It once again points out that those nose-picking nancy-boys at the CCP are as structurally-unsound as that tofu-dreg construction all over China.
Just make sure Winnie doesn’t run out of pork, boys…