South Korean cyber command raided in growing scandal

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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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