Based on an article by Nishioka Tsutomu published in the magazine Sound Argument, this text examines the background of the radar-locking incident involving a South Korean naval destroyer. By presenting the views of South Korean conservative journalists and military experts, it discusses questions surrounding the Moon Jae-in administration, North Korea, and suspected ship-to-ship transfers. The author traveled to Seoul to investigate these issues firsthand.

2019-02-06.
I wanted to resolve these questions, so I traveled to Seoul for interviews from January 13 to 17.
The following is from an article written by Nishioka Tsutomu, one of Japan’s great benefactors, published in the recently released issue of the magazine Sound Argument under the title “Scoop! The Attempted Assassination of Kim Jong-un—Why Did the South Korean Destroyer Use Radar Lock-On?”.
Anyone who reads this article will surely feel that all Japanese citizens should immediately cancel subscriptions to newspapers such as Asahi and instead redirect the roughly 5,000 yen monthly subscription fees to regular subscriptions to the magazines Sound Argument, Hanada, WiLL, and Voice.
One would be astonished to realize that by merely subscribing to newspapers such as Asahi, Mainichi, Tokyo, and Chunichi and watching news from television stations like NHK that monopolize the airwaves at low cost, one cannot understand the truth at all.
Journalist Kim Dong-yong raised the following suspicion.
“It raises the suspicion that the South Korean Navy may have staged a situation that the Japanese patrol aircraft was not supposed to witness.”
This was a passage from an article written on December 29 last year by Kim Dong-yong, a former Monthly Chosun reporter and former Air Force radar controller, on a news site run by the conservative South Korean journalist Cho Gap-je.
Kim Dong-yong argued that given the circumstances there is no doubt the South Korean destroyer used its fire-control radar, and that it was also strange that the vessel did not respond to radio calls.
He demanded that the South Korean military reveal the truth, stating that truth itself serves the national interest.
Then what exactly was the South Korean destroyer doing.
Kim Dong-yong cited the following incident on May 3, 2018 to point out suspicious aspects of the relationship between the Moon Jae-in administration and North Korea.
In the East China Sea, a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force escort vessel discovered a situation in which the South Korean ship JeyHope appeared to approach the North Korean vessel Namsan No. 8 in what looked like a ship-to-ship transfer.
Japan requested the South Korean government to investigate, but South Korea denied the facts.
Among some Japanese experts there has also been discussion that the destroyer might have been refueling a North Korean fishing boat, which, if true, could violate United Nations sanctions.
However, three North Korean residents aboard the fishing vessel were rescued and taken to South Korea.
If they had been receiving fuel, they would likely have returned to North Korea in their own boat, so it seems unlikely that refueling occurred.
If it was not refueling, then what scene did the South Korean destroyer not want the Japanese patrol aircraft to see.
Cho Gap-je, on his own YouTube program, raised three questions.
Why did both a navy ship and a coast guard vessel conduct the rescue together.
Why did the destroyer not respond to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces’ radio communication.
And why were the rescued North Korean residents returned to North Korea two days later.
While speaking cautiously, he argued that it is difficult to simply accept the South Korean government’s explanation.
Wanting to resolve these questions, I traveled to Seoul for interviews from January 13 to 17.
Those I was able to meet included Cho Gap-je, the rising journalist Kim Pil-jae, Dong-A Ilbo military reporter Lee Jung-hoon, North Korean defector and human rights activist Kim Seong-min of Free North Korea Radio, a former director of the National Intelligence Service, and several other intelligence-related sources.
To be continued.