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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Prosecution raids spy agency office over scandal

Prosecutors on Tuesday raided the headquarters of the 

nation's main intelligence agency in connection with 


suspicions that the organization attempted to influence 


public opinion ahead of last year's presidential election. 


A team of some 25 prosecutors and investigators seized 


digital files, internal documents from an anti-North Korea 


psychological warfare team at the National Intelligence 


Service (NIS), they said.



Allegations have been raised that the NIS extensively and 


systemically intervened in the presidential election by using 


its agents at the team to post a slew of politically sensitive 


comments on the Internet against the opposition candidate to


 sway public opinion ahead of the December race. (Yonhap 


News)

S. Korea spy agency raided over poll scandal




S. Korea spy agency raided over poll scandal


South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday raided the country's spy agency as part of a probe into allegations that it meddled in the presidential election in December, a news report said.

A team of about 25 prosecutors and investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office seized digital files and doc-uments from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) in the capital, Yonhap news agency said.

The agency's anti-North Korea psychological warfare team allegedly posted a slew of politically sensitive comments on the Internet against the opposition candidate to influence public opinion ahead of the December poll.

The raid follows the questioning of former NIS director Won Sei-Hoon on Monday in connection with the case.

For 14 hours, Won was grilled over whether he ordered NIS agents to post politically sensitive remarks on the Internet against the opposition candidate, Yonhap said, citing prosecutors.

Nobody at the Prosecutors' Office was immediately available to comment.

Won reportedly denied the charges against him, claiming that the agency's anti-North Korea team was doing its job in countering Pyongyang's attempts to influence the election results.

Won is suspected of attempting to influence voter sentiment ahead of the presidential election in favour of the conservative ruling party candidate Park Geun-Hye, who narrowly defeated liberal rival Moon Jae-In to become South Korea's first female president.

He has been barred from leaving the country pending the result of the investigation.

Police wrapped up their four-month probe in March, accusing two NIS agents of taking part in the illegal political activities and handing the case to the prosecution for further investigation and possible indictment.

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Worldwide Newspapers anounce : Election Fraud Suspected, South Korea


1.http://www.townelection.com/news/police-in-south-korea-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election-new-york-times

2. 유럽 http://news.silobreaker.com/south-korean-police-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election-5_2266758583481794677
 
3.http://www.newsbcc.com/Singapore/World/Police_in_South_Korea_Say_Spy_Service_Tried_to_Influence_Election/390143/

4. http://www.onenewspage.com/n/Asia-Pacific/74vspx8gq/Police-in-South-Korea-Say-Spy-Service-Tried.htm

5. http://wirednixon.com/blog/police-in-south-korea-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election-new-york-times/

6. http://news.alternativefuse.com/phprssreader/news/south-korean-police-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election

7. http://contact422.typepad.com/blog/2013/04/police-in-south-korea-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election-new-york-times.html

8. 그리스 http://www.dou.gr/article.php?a=5319422

9.http://article.wn.com/view/2013/04/18/Police_in_South_Korea_Say_Spy_Service_Tried_to_Influence_Ele/#/related_news

10. http://world.topnewstoday.org/world/article/5547883/

11. 인도네시아 http://www.antara.co.id/en/news/88511/spy-agency-officials-intervened-in-s-korean-presidential-election

12.http://www.tvballa.com/2013/04/park-geun-hye/korea-police-election-spy-service-say-south-influence-tried

13.http://www.vox6.com/news/south-korean-police-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election

14.http://www.asiaworks.com/news/2013/04/18/south-korean-police-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election-nytimes-com/

15. http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/213925694/scat/3f5c98640a497b43

16.독일http://facts.ch/articles/9016802-police-in-south-korea-say-spy-service-tried-to-influe

17.호주야후뉴스(야후뉴스는 No 1. 인터넷 뉴스입니다. ) 
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/16795912/?

18. http://www.worldrssnews.com/2013/04/18/police-in-south-korea-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election-new-york-times/

19. http://dailyme.com/story/2013041800002786
 
20.http://tibidy.com/articles/police-in-south-korea-say-spy-service-tried-to-influence-election/312034

21.방콕http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/345925/s-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-in-election

22.http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130418/s-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-election

23.뉴질랜드 야후 http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/16795912/s-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-in-election/

24.필리핀야후http://ph.news.yahoo.com/korea-police-intel-agents-meddled-election-160726365.html

25.싱가폴msn뉴스http://news.xin.msn.com/en/regional/s-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-in-election

26. http://www.topix.com/sn/dakar/2013/04/s-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled

27.http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia/story/south-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-election-20130418

28.https://www.theinnoplex.com/news/newssub/south-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-in-election

29.호주http://www.allnewsau.com/news/s-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-in-election

30. 구글 링크
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iJCgv9Lf5Y_5uwPnQo9net3RZGhQ?docId=CNG.7e16fedc1a11fc7cf514c30d8158ebbb.171&index=0

31.http://www.stasiareport.com/the-big-story/asia-report/south-korea/story/south-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-election-201

32. 말레이시아 msn http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/s-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-in-election-1

33.http://www.ipotnews.com/index.php?jdl=S__Korea_police_say_intel_agents_meddled_in_election&level2=&level3=&level4=international&news_id=766610&group_news=ALLNEWS&taging_subtype=BANKING&popular=&search=y&q=

34.필리핀http://news.ph.msn.com/regional/s-korea-police-say-intel-agents-meddled-in-election-2


 

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Psy’s ‘Gentleman’ debuts at No. 12 on Billboard


Published : 2013-04-18 19:36
Updated : 2013-04-18 19:36
A scene from Psy’s new “Gentleman” music video. (YG Entertainment)
Psy has once again managed to penetrate the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, with his new single “Gentleman” making its debut at No. 12. Last year, the rapper’s claim-to-fame track “Gangman Style” entered the charts at No. 64 before eventually rocketing its way to No. 2, where it peaked. The song still ranks on the Hot 100 chart, at No. 48.

The rapper’s follow-up single also made it onto the U.K. Singles Top 100 chart at No. 61, the exact same position that “Gangnam Style” debuted on the chart last year before taking the No. 1 spot on Sept. 30.

“Gentleman” was released less than a week ago on April 12 and its music video is already on the war path of shattering YouTube records, setting the record for most views on its debut day with more than 18 million hits. As of Thursday afternoon, the comedic music video has accumulated more than 137 million hits on YouTube.

By Julie Jackson (juliejackson@heraldcorp.com)

Police in South Korea Say Spy Service Tried to Influence Election





SEOUL, South Korea — At least two agents from the South Korean National Intelligence Service illegally posted comments online criticizing the political opposition ahead of the December presidential election, the police said on Thursday in an interim report on an investigation into accusations of political meddling.
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The police said it remained unclear whether the two agents were part of an operation to influence the Dec. 19 election, as the opposition Democratic United Party claimed. But the findings were a blow to President Park Geun-hye, who had vehemently accused her opposition rival, Moon Jae-in, of a political offensive when his party first made accusations of illegal campaign activities by intelligence agents.
Ms. Park, the governing party candidate, won the election by a margin of one million votes.
The case revived long-held suspicions among South Koreans over the role of the National Intelligence Service. The country’s former military dictators — including Ms. Park’s father, the late President Park Chung-hee — had used the agency, once known by its infamous acronym, K.C.I.A., to torture and silence dissidents and influence domestic politics.
After the country democratized in the early 1990s, the agency, which has changed its name a few times, repeatedly vowed not to intervene in politics.
On Thursday, Lee Kwang-seok, chief of the Suseo Police Station in Seoul, admitted difficulties investigating the secretive agency. The supervisor of the two agents, who are from the intelligence service’s psychological intelligence bureau, refused to be questioned, Mr. Lee said.
The police asked prosecutors to formally indict the two agents, whose names were not released, on charges of violating a law that requires intelligence officers to maintain political neutrality. A third person, not affiliated with the agency, faces a criminal charge of helping the agents in their online operation.
The police, citing a lack of evidence, stopped short of accusing the agents of a more politically volatile crime of violating the country’s election law, a decision the opposition party called a whitewash.
Political parties had earlier agreed to conduct a separate parliamentary inquiry. Prosecutors have also barred the former intelligence service director, Won Sei-hoon, a close ally of former President Lee Myung-bak, from leaving the country.
There was no immediate reaction from Ms. Park’s office or the intelligence service. The agency had earlier denied interfering in the election. It said its officers’ online activities had been part of its normal psychological operations aimed at North Korea.
Park Yong-jin, spokesman for the Democratic United Party, said Thursday that the case showed that the agency was “'a chambermaid of political power,” and compared the campaign activities of which it is accused to a “coup d'état.”
Mr. Park also accused the national police of dragging their feet in investigating the case, out of fear of offending President Park. The police said the investigation was continuing.
The case began when police officers and officials from the National Election Commission knocked on the door of a room in an office and residential complex in southern Seoul on Dec. 11, just over a week before the election. They were responding to a tip from the opposition party that a 29-year-old agent was running an illegal online election campaign operation from there.
But they could not even enter the room, as the agent had locked herself in. A political standoff erupted. The opposition accused the intelligence service of blocking an investigation. Ms. Park and her party accused the opposition of harassing the woman. The police took two days to obtain two computers from the woman and another two days before questioning her for the first time.
Three days before the election, the police said they had found no evidence of illegal online activities. After the election, however, the police said further investigations revealed that the woman used 16 Internet user IDs to upload numerous comments often criticizing opposition candidates on politically sensitive issues. Still later, they questioned a second agent and a person who was said to have been hired by the agents to assist them in their work.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Choo rips first homer of season as Reds hold off Angels in series rubber game

CINCINNATI (AP) ― Joey Votto? One single in 10 at-bats. Jay Bruce? One double in 13 at-bats with seven strikeouts.

Cincinnati’s top run producers barely got the bat on the ball, yet the Reds managed to win the major leagues’ first interleague series to open a season. Credit those other guys who don’t normally do the heavy lifting.

Choo Shin-soo homered on Joe Blanton’s first pitch of the game Thursday, the first of Cincinnati’s three homers off the right-hander, and the Reds won 5-4 over the Los Angeles Angels.

Not too bad considering the big hitters’ struggles.
Cincinnati Reds outfielder Choo Shin-soo hits a home run in the first inning on Thursday. (AFP-Yonhap News)

“It means somebody else picked us up,” manager Dusty Baker said. 

“We had excellent pitching. Some of their players didn’t get uncaged, either. That was an exciting series. Every game was a great game that could have gone either way.”

Todd Frazier also had a solo homer off Blanton (0-1), and Chris Heisey’s two-run shot put Cincinnati up 5-3 in the fifth. Blanton gave up five runs and seven hits in five innings during his Angels debut.

Blanton, who signed a two-year, $15 million deal in December, didn’t make many bad pitches. He didn’t have much luck, either.

“Two of them were off mistakes, and I felt I made maybe a handful of them all day,” Blanton said. “That happens sometimes in baseball. One of those things that just happened out of the gate.”

Heisey’s homer was his first as the full-time left fielder. He’s replacing Ryan Ludwick, who had surgery on Wednesday to repair torn cartilage in his right shoulder, an injury that will sideline him for at least the first half of the season.

“I’ve proven I can play off the bench,” Heisey said. “I’m not feeling any pressure.”

Bronson Arroyo (1-0) gave up three runs in six innings, including Josh Hamilton’s two-run single that was his first hit for the Angels. Albert Pujols drove in a pair of runs with a sacrifice fly and a groundout.

Nobody enjoyed Choo’s homer more than Arroyo. Choo has four career homers off Arroyo, his highest total off any pitcher. The Reds got him from Cleveland in the offseason.

“Every time he goes deep for me, it’s like a holiday,” Arroyo said.

Left-hander Aroldis Chapman pitched the ninth, converting his first save opportunity. Mike Trout led off with a single and was sacrificed to second, but Pujols flied out and Hamilton struck out.

The teams combined for seven homers and 63 strikeouts during the series. The Reds fanned 36 overall, a club record for the first three games of a season. The 36 strikeouts were an Angels record for a three-game series.

Their biggest hitters also have had a tough time getting started.

Pujols and Hamilton were a combined 0 for 17 with six strikeouts before they finally put something together in the third inning. Pujols doubled for his first hit, and Hamilton followed with a two-run single; Pujols slid into home safely while catcher Ryan Hanigan missed his leg while attempting the tag.

Chicago Cubs 3, Pittsburgh 2 

Minnesota 8, Detroit 2 

San Diego 2, NY Mets 1 

Kansas City 3, Chicago White Sox 1

Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 3 

Oakland 8, Seattle 2

Washington 6, Miami 1

NY Yankees 4, Boston 2 

Toronto 10, Cleveland 8 

Philadelphia 2, Atlanta 0

Ryu makes MLB debut Wednesday


Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin throws in a spring training game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif. last month.
                                                                                                                           / AP-Yonhap

By Baek Byung-yeul

When the lefthander made his Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) debut in 2006, few could have guessed he would win both the Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards. When he stated his desire to play in the majors, scoffs could be heard from the peanut gallery.Ryu Hyun-jin has a habit of exceeding expectations.

The Korean-born pitcher has continued to outstrip predictions since signing a six-year, $36 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers last winter, seeming to adjust well during spring training. The question now is how he will fare when the games matter.

The Korean will get his chance to answer in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening (Wednesday at KST), when the Dodgers take on NL West rival San Francisco Giants.

Ryu, 26, has done his part to spur expectations with a solid preseason performance. Over seven games, he went 2-2 with a 3.29 ERA, striking out 27 batters and scattering 10 runs over 27.1 innings. He couldn’t have ended on a better note, striking out Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols.

Such performances have raised eyebrows around the league - in a survey of 43 ESPN analysts on who would win NL Rookie of Year, Ryu came in fourth.

He won’t be alone in needing to prove himself as the Dodgers have gone all out in a bid to claim primacy in the division from the Giants, who have won two of the past three World Series titles.

To do so, they’ve plunked down a league-high $232 million to tie up ace Zack Greinke as well as pitcher Clayton Kershaw, center fielder Matt Kemp and first baseman Adrian Gonzalez. Ryu will have to show that he can consistently pitch deep into the game with a chance to win, to prove his worth.

He will face a San Francisco lineup similar to last year’s that includes batting champ Buster Posey as well as the World Series MVP Pablo Sadoval.

He’ll have a tough act to follow after an Opening Day gem from Kershaw, who led the 4-0 victory against the Giants with a complete-game shutout.

In typical fashion, Ryu seemed calm as he watched Kershaw mow down the opponents. “I will do my best,” he said. “I am only focusing on winning the game.”

Ryu Hyun-jin enjoys quiet life

LOS ANGELES (Yonhap News) ― South Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin, who recently made his major-league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers, says he is happy leading a quiet life in his new California home.

Speaking with Korean reporters at his downtown L.A. apartment Thursday, the rookie pitcher said he’s had no problem adjusting to life in the U.S., and has even gained a little weight from eating the home-cooked meals his mother, who lives with him, makes every day.

The 26-year-old is the first South Korean player to make the leap from the Korea Baseball Organization to the big leagues. 

Ryu currently lives with his parents and older brother at the five-star Ritz Carlton Residences in the heart of Los Angeles. He bought the $1.8 million home immediately after signing the contract in December. These apartments are a popular dwelling for celebrities, with lavish furnishings such as a rooftop swimming pool and a bar.

With Dodger Stadium just a 10-minute walk from home, Ryu can wake up at 11 a.m. every morning and still have time to feast on his mother’s Korean cooking. 

On his days off, Ryu spends time with his father and older brother, practicing his second favorite sport: golf. Though he refuses to share his scores, Ryu claims he has a driving distance of about 290 yards. 

Unfazed by the time difference, Ryu remains a diligent watcher of Hanwha Eagles games. He also uses the popular Korean instant messenger Kakaotalk to discuss baseball with his old teammates. 

Despite the language barrier, Ryu says he has no problem getting by. 

“I mostly communicate using words and phrases I’ve picked up on my own,” he said. “If I need to, I can easily grab a translator or a manager for help.”