South Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced former unification minister Cho Myong-gyon to prison time on Thursday, following his conviction for destroying records from the 2007 inter-Korean summit while serving as a national security official in the presidential office at the time.
Cho received a sentence of one year in prison, suspended for two years, for his actions while serving in the Roh Moo-hyun administration. Baek Jong-chun, another national security aide under Roh, received the same sentence on Thursday as part of the same case.
South Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced former unification minister Cho Myong-gyon to prison time on Thursday, following his conviction for destroying records from the 2007 inter-Korean summit while serving as a national security official in the presidential office at the time.
Cho received a sentence of one year in prison, suspended for two years, for his actions while serving in the Roh Moo-hyun administration. Baek Jong-chun, another national security aide under Roh, received the same sentence on Thursday as part of the same case.
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