This article introduces an investigation by Tsutomu Nishioka published in the magazine Sound Argument, examining the radar-lock incident involving the South Korean destroyer Gwanggaeto the Great. Through interviews with conservative journalists and military experts in South Korea, the report highlights contradictions in the Moon administration’s explanation and explores the suspicious relationship between Seoul and North Korea.

2019-02-06
I wanted to resolve these questions, and therefore traveled to Seoul for reporting from January 13 to 17.
The following is from an article written by Tsutomu Nishioka, 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 Lock Radar?”
Anyone who reads this article will surely feel compelled to immediately cancel their subscriptions to newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun and instead spend the approximately 5,000 yen monthly subscription fee on regular subscriptions to the four magazines Sound Argument, Hanada, WiLL, and Voice (about 3,600 yen in total).
One will be astonished to realize that by merely subscribing to the Asahi, Mainichi, Tokyo, and Chunichi newspapers and watching the news broadcasts of television networks such as NHK, which monopolize the airwaves at low cost, it is virtually impossible to understand any of the truth.
Suspicion raised by reporter Kim Dong-yeon.
“It raises the suspicion that the South Korean Navy may have staged a situation that Japan’s patrol aircraft was not supposed to witness.”
This is a passage from an article written on December 29 of last year by Kim Dong-yeon, a former air force radar controller and former reporter for Monthly Chosun, on a news site run by Cho Gap-je, a leading conservative journalist in South Korea.
Kim Dong-yeon argued that, judging from the circumstances, there is no doubt that the South Korean destroyer locked its fire-control radar, and that its failure to respond to radio communications was also suspicious.
He insisted that truth serves the national interest and called on the South Korean military to disclose the facts.
Then what exactly was the South Korean destroyer doing?
Kim Dong-yeon cited the following case from May 3, 2018, to point out the suspicious relationship between the Moon Jae-in administration and North Korea.
In the East China Sea, a South Korean vessel called the “JeyHope” approached the North Korean ship Namsan No. 8 in a scene that appeared to be a ship-to-ship transfer.
A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force escort ship discovered this and requested an investigation by the South Korean government, but South Korea denied the facts.
Among some Japanese experts, there has been discussion that the destroyer might have been refueling a North Korean fishing vessel, which, if true, could constitute a violation of UN sanctions.
However, the three North Korean residents aboard the fishing vessel were rescued and taken to South Korea.
If they had actually been refueled, they would presumably have returned directly to North Korea aboard their fishing boat, which suggests that refueling did not occur.
If it was not refueling, then what was the scene that the South Korean destroyer did not want the Japanese patrol aircraft to see?
On his own YouTube channel, Cho Gap-je raised three questions: why did both a naval vessel and a coast guard vessel conduct the rescue operation together.
Why did the destroyer fail to respond to the radio calls from the Japanese Self-Defense Force aircraft.
Why were the rescued North Korean residents returned to North Korea two days later.
While speaking cautiously, he argued that the South Korean government’s explanation could not easily be accepted.
I wanted to resolve these questions, and therefore traveled to Seoul for reporting from January 13 to 17.
Those I was able to meet included Cho Gap-je, the rising journalist Kim Pil-jae, Lee Jung-hoon of the Dong-A Ilbo, South Korea’s leading military reporter, Kim Seong-min, a North Korean defector and human-rights activist who heads Free North Korea Radio, a former director of the National Intelligence Service, and several intelligence-related sources.
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