Kim Suk-joong

Kim Suk Joong (died June 2014) is an Whistleblower on the Republic of Korea Army Cyber Command's alleged election meddling in 2013.

As a military officer, Kim Suk Joong was in charge of making composite pictures and videos in a cyber history psychological warfare unit. It is believed to have been aimed at opposition politicians or cultural and artistic figures who are critical of the government When the Defense Ministry launched an investigation in 2013, cyber history psychological warfare agents tried to destroy evidence by deleting computer hard disks, but sensitive information such as reports from the presidential office, Cheong Wa Dae, was left intact on the computers of Kim Suk Joong submitted the data to the ministry's investigation headquarters, but the ministry announced that it has found no internal and external instructions on intervening in the presidential election. Kim was then transferred to the South Korean military's Daegu Hospital, which is not related to intelligence affairs, as a political informant in the cyber company's meddling in the presidential election. He then died in a car accident in June 2014 while walking. Kim Ki-hyun, former head of the cyber history psychological warfare unit, said in a media interview that Kim told him that he would "make a declaration of his conscience at an appropriate time" while being transferred to a hospital in Daegu, but he seems to have died about 15 days after saying that.

A controversy over death
Kim Suk Joong was transferred to the Armed Forces Daegu Hospital, which has nothing to do with intelligence work, after being reported as a whistleblower," said Kim Jin-pyo, a lawmaker of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, during a parliamentary audit of the National Assembly's National Defense Committee on Wednesday. "He died in a car accident while walking. We should also thoroughly investigate this as well." "If we look at the data of the 2017 findings, the details are the exact opposite," Kim said. "At that time, Baek Nak-jong, the head of the Defense Ministry's investigation division, asked whether he could cover up and down suspicions alone, and whether he was willing to thoroughly investigate former Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin." Song Young-moo said, "The order is not subject to any scope of investigation." Seo Young-kyo of the same party also said, "The NIS chief, identified only by his surname Lim, died when there was a cyber problem, and when there was a military cyber problem, Kim Suk Joong was killed in a car accident. "The military should thoroughly investigate and sternly punish those who died while trying to save Korea by declaring their conscience at the time so that there was no unfair death," Song said. "We will completely overhaul the military's cyber history."