South Korea's military said Friday it has decided to continue an internal investigation into its alleged past intervention in political affairs through the first half of 2018.
The military is suspected of having mobilized the nation's cyberwarfare command to help spread politically charged messages, favorable to the previous conservative administrations and critical of the liberal opposition bloc, through the Internet.
The Defense Security Command, which has a mission to collect security-related intelligence and investigate anti-state activities, is also alleged to have intervened in politics since 2008.
This photo, taken on Oct. 30, 2017, shows Lt. Gen. Lee Suk-koo, the commander of the Defense Security Command, speaking during a parliamentary audit at the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul. (Yonhap)
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