Moon Jae-in Archives - East Asia Research Center

March 23, 2023

Moon Jae-in’s Blue House Official: “Bundles of Cash Sent to North Korea through Seongnam Airport”

2023-2-9, JoongAng Ilbo [TRANSLATION] [Truncated] In that case, did the Moon Jae-in government not have any remittances to North Korea? In this regard, I have heard something noteworthy. According to...

Moon Jae-in/North Korea/Sanctions/Translation of Korean News

December 19, 2022

3 More Defectors Forced to Return to North Korea by the Moon Government in 2018; Defector: Hundreds of North Korean Boats with Defectors Forcibly Returned to North Korea in 2017 & 2018

2022-12-19, Tara O The Moon Jae-in Administration (10 May 2017-9 May 2022) sent back 2 fishermen defectors to North Korea against their wishes in 2019, and the defectors say they...

Defectors/Freedom/Human Rights/Japan/Military/Moon Jae-in/North Korea/Security

November 9, 2022

Moon Jae-in Regime Harassed Two Intelligence Colonels, Destroyed HUMINT Network, Severely Degraded KDIC Capability

2022-11-9, Tara O Two South Korean colonels, who had been working secret missions against North Korea for more than 20 years, and regarded as outstanding in their fields, were harassed...

Defense/Intelligence/Military/Moon Jae-in/National Security/Subversion

October 23, 2022

Lawmaker Kim Byung-joo, Democratic Party of Korea, Retired ROK Military 4 Star General, Criticizes Korea-U.S.-Japan Military Exercise

2022-10-23, Tara O National Assemblyman Kim Byung-joo (김병주), Democratic Party of Korea, criticized the recent Republic of Korea (ROK)-U.S.-Japan military exercise. On October 12, 2022, he said, “It’s the same...

Alliance/Defense/Military/Moon Jae-in/National Security

August 21, 2022

[Exclusive] Shocking Testimony of a Senior NIS official: NIS Under Moon Bought a Villa, Yacht in Preparation for Kim Jong-un’s Potential Visit

September 2022 Issue, Choi Woo-seok, Chosun Monthly [TRANSLATION] ⊙ “Around June 2019, the NIS bought a ₩1,600,000,000 (~$1.37 million) villa in Paju, where his party would stay during his reciprocal...

Defectors/Moon Jae-in/North Korea/Sanctions/Translation of Korean News/Whistleblower

August 18, 2022

What Was the Truth about the “S. Korea-China Foreign Transaction During the Moon Regime”

2022-8-9, Cho Woo-seok Column, Sky eDaily [TRANSLATION] The news worthy of attention these days is the remarks of the Foreign Affairs Minister Park Jin (박진). On 1 August, he simultaneously...

China/Moon Jae-in/Translation of Korean News/Treason

July 12, 2022

Intelligence on the Civil Servant Killed by North Korea Deleted from Defense Ministry’s Network, the 2 Defectors Sent back to North Korea After the Blue House Abruptly Halted Investigation, Former Intelligence Chiefs Park Ji-won, Suh Hoon, Others Charged

2022-7-12, Tara O On July 6, 2022, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) filed criminal charges against Park Ji-won and Suh Hoon, NIS directors in the Moon Jae-in administration, for violating...

Abuse of Authority/Defectors/Dictatorship/Human Rights/Intelligence/Moon Jae-in/North Korea

June 6, 2022

Communist Spy Shin Young-bok of Subversive Revolutionary Organization Memorialized at South Korea’s Intelligence Agency, An Insult to NIS and the Republic of Korea

Tara O, 2022-6-6 Imagine a statue of Aldrich H. Ames at the entrance of the CIA. Or a memorial of Robert Hanssen at the entrance of the FBI. Does it...

Espionage/Influence Operations/Information Operations/Intelligence/Moon Jae-in/National Security/Socialism/Spy/Subversion/Treason

April 2, 2022

KimMelda: NIS Fund Used to Pay South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Wife’s Luxurious Clothes and Jewelry?

2022-4-2, Tara O South Korean First Lady Kim Jong-sook’s extravagant spending on clothes, shoes, jewelry, and accessories during the Moon administration has become a major controversy in South Korea. The...

Abuse of Authority/Corruption/Moon Jae-in/Rule of Law/South Korea

January 9, 2022

Instagram Removes “Defeat Communism” Posting, CIO Collects on Shinsegae Vice Chair Chung Yong-jin’s Electronic Communications

2022-1-9, Tara O Instagram removed a post by Chung Yong-jin (정용진), vice chairman of Shinsegae Group, which owns Shinsegae department stores and eMart, early this year. On January 5, 2022,...

Abuse of Authority/Censorship/Communism/Freedom/Freedom of Expression/Freedom of Speech/Freedom of the Press/Human Rights/Lawfare/Moon Jae-in/Protests/South Korea/Suppression

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