Ahead of the December 3 declaration of emergency martial law, there were Defense Intelligence Command (DIC) agents who attempted to contact North Korea and were arrested by Mongolian authorities.
According to an MBC investigation, these agents—who had never even been to Mongolia before—were found to have openly tried to meet North Korean officials, going so far as to knock on the door of the North Korean embassy.
However, neither the intelligence agents nor the local embassy attaché who lent them a vehicle received any significant disciplinary action. The reason they attempted to force contact with North Korea remains an unresolved issue, now left for the second comprehensive special prosecutor team to investigate.
Reporter Byun Yoon-jae reports.
On November 18, 2024—about two weeks before the declaration of emergency martial law—two Defense Intelligence Command agents were urgently dispatched to Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
According to a National Intelligence Service (NIS) investigation, they took an official vehicle provided by a military attaché at the South Korean embassy and headed directly to the North Korean embassy in Mongolia.
They were found to have knocked on the embassy’s front gate without prior arrangement.
When North Korea did not respond, they initially withdrew, but later attempted to establish contact again by recruiting a local Mongolian intermediary.
However, on November 22, after arousing suspicion, they were reported by a local individual and arrested by Mongolian intelligence authorities. They were released two days later only after the NIS deputy director sent a formal letter of apology.
Both agents had no prior experience visiting Mongolia, and the embassy attaché who provided the official vehicle—Colonel Park—was revealed to be a former superior of the agents within the intelligence command.
The agents claimed the trip was for a “HUMINT (human intelligence) handover,” but at the time, overseas operatives had already returned home following the so-called “black agent” list leak scandal.
Despite attempting this so-called “knock operation” in Mongolia, the two agents returned to their unit without significant punishment. Colonel Park was not investigated by the military, the NIS, or even the special prosecutor handling insurrection-related cases.
He is currently serving as head of a support unit within the Defense Intelligence Agency, responsible for collecting and reporting overseas intelligence.
Park Sun-won (Democratic Party lawmaker, National Assembly Intelligence Committee):
“They needed, for the purposes of insurrection, some form of North Korean attack or prearranged action. But they were caught knocking on the North Korean embassy door.”
As questions remain over whether the agents were attempting to provoke a North Korean action to justify the declaration of martial law, the Ministry of National Defense stated it will “take action after reviewing the results of the investigation” by the second special prosecutor team.
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1. Summary
Ahead of the December 3 declaration of emergency martial law, there were Defense Intelligence Command (DIC) agents who attempted to contact North Korea and were arrested by Mongolian authorities.
According to an MBC investigation, these agents, who had never even been to Mongolia before, were found to have openly tried to meet North Korean officials, going so far as to knock on the door of the North Korean embassy.
2. How is this related to the sub
(1) Treason of far-right and religious extremists
3. My opinion
It seems that DIC under the influence of “Burger Oracle”, one of many Yoon’s shamans, attempted to make contact with North Korea to trigger a second Korean War. Mongolians saved East Asia from a bloodshed by arresting these shamanistic insurrectionists.