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Ex-ROK intel chief ordered elimination of agents after 2016 North Korea missions

Senior military officer made revelation during testimony on Roh Sang-won’s role in Dec. 3 martial law declaration

The former head of South Korea’s Defense Intelligence Command (KDIC) issued orders to “blow up” intelligence officers once they had completed their missions related to North Korea, according to a senior military officer testifying during a hearing on Yoon Suk-yeol’s martial law declaration. 

Brigadier General Park Min-woo, currently serving as deputy commander of the ROK Army’s 2nd Corps, made the revelation on Tuesday, during a special parliamentary committee hearing. 

Lawmakers were questioning Park about Roh Sang-won’s role in Yoon’s Dec. 3 martial law declaration and his experience working with Roh when Park commanded a unit of the Headquarters Intelligence