Home of ex-security official raided in probe over alleged leak of THAAD-related intelligence

This picture, supplied by a civic group against the deployment of the Terminal Excessive Altitude Space Protection U.S. missile protection system, exhibits the group’s tent within the county of Seongju, 215 kilometers southeast of Seoul, raided by prosecutors, Jan. 9. Yonhap

Prosecutors on Thursday raided the house of a former deputy nationwide safety chief, as a part of their probe into suspicions of leaking intelligence associated to a U.S. missile protection system to delay the formal deployment of the Terminal Excessive Altitude Space Protection (THAAD) battery.

Suh Choo-suk, former first deputy director of the Nationwide Safety Workplace below the Moon Jae-in administration, is one in all 4 high-ranking safety officers who’ve been accused of allegedly leaking THAAD-related intelligence to activists.

Suh, former Nationwide Safety Adviser Chung Eui-yong and two different senior officers who served within the previous authorities are accused of allegedly making an attempt to delay the official deployment of the THAAD battery within the county by mandating an environmental analysis, which takes over a 12 months to finish, whereas delaying the vetting course of.

They’re additionally accused of leaking the plans by U.S. and Korean forces to interchange a THAAD battery missile to activists and China. (Yonhap)