[Editorial] Is it Factionalism that the Truth Shall be Examined?

Chung Hyun-keun, a Grand National Party lawmaker, insisted in an radio interview,” I am certain that there is a pro-North Korean power in the current government. The government was willing to allow Song Du-yul to secretly infiltrate into South Korea.” When lawmaker Chung raised such an important issue on the public broadcast, he should not discuss this based only on his supposition. If he does not present obvious evidence, he can not avoid the blame, which his utterance like McCarthyism agitated a feeling of uneasiness.

However, the government shall reflect why he mentioned this ahead of regarding his utterance as ‘old fashioned factionalism’. In fact, there are several suspicions to the course that Song Du-yul,who is thought of as a democrat in foreign country, came to Korea. Some traces that gave him an immunity right and assisted him to take a lecture about ‘imminent approach’ to the college students and citizen are found in several places.

The beautified program aired on KBS about Song propped from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) cannot help but interpret this as an intention to influence investigation and judicial treatment about him. It is doubtful that a vice-director in NIS, Song’s schoolmate and his close friend visited him ahead of Song’s entrance into Korea. It is difficult to say that the no-punishment utterance of the Minister of Justice, the change of NIS opinion about dispatching Song, and other relevant events are not related to his visit to Korea.

President Roh Moo-hyun who said, “Some unfavorable facts were found than we had previously thought” is likely to include a complicated meaning. Song is the person that the Kim Dae-jung government also precluded from entering Korea. If the current government treats him easily and carelessly, this is the problem of this government.

The opinion that the truth of Song’s favored North Korea behaviors and the influence behind him shall be disclosed shall not be denounced as ’factionalism’. The most importance is to examine the truth on this phase. The prosecution has to have the attitude of starting again and analyzing everything involved in Song thoroughly.