http://www.smh.com.au/world/south-korean-cyber-command-raided-in-growing-scandal-20131023-2vzqg.html
By Choe Sang-Hun
smh.com.au
October 23, 2013
Seoul, South Korea: Military investigators raided South Korea's
Cyberwarfare Command on Tuesday after four of its officials were found to
have posted political messages online last year, in what opposition
lawmakers have called a smear campaign against President Park Geun-hye's
opponents before her election in December.
Ms Park defeated her main opposition rival, Moon Jae-in, by roughly 1
million votes in the election and took office in February. But in a
snowballing scandal, prosecutors have since said that during the
presidential campaign, agents of the National Intelligence Service posted
thousands of Internet messages supporting Ms Park and her governing
Saenuri Party or berating government critics, including opposition
presidential candidates, as shills for North Korea.
Last week, opposition lawmakers alleged in the National Assembly that the
military's secretive Cyberwarfare Command had carried out a similar online
campaign, separately or in coordination with the spy agency, to help sway
public opinion in favour of Park before the December 19 election.
On Tuesday, the Defence Ministry confirmed that four cyberwarfare
officials had posted political messages. But it quoted them as saying they
had acted on their own.
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