Democratic Labor Party lawmaker Lee Jung-hee seems to think so:
In a press conference held at the National Assembly on Wednesday, Democratic Labor Party (DLP) Lawmaker Lee Jung-hee stated, “The shocking fact has come to light that the Lee Myung-bak government is using the DSC to investigate a large number of civilians.” Lee claims that the DSC “these systemic investigations involves a great deal of expense and several agents.”
Lee disclosed items discovered on the person of a captain affiliated with the DSC, identified by the surname of Shin, as evidence. The captain had been present at the scene of an Aug. 5 assembly in Pyeongtaek protesting police suppression of the Ssangyong Motors labor union strike. Lee presented the press with video recordings, identification, a military operations vehicle certificate, and a pocket notebook containing the DLP’s activity plan that had been in Shin’s possession.
The Hankyoreh quotes a DSC official as saying the captain in question was at the Pyeongtaek protest as part of an investigation of a soldier accused of violating the National Security Law, and that the notes about civilians did not mean civilians were being investigated, but were rather “a process of confirming intelligence about crimes connected with the military.”
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