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Audit agency refers ex-security adviser to probe over delayed deployment of THAAD

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This March 2018 file photo shows National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong speaking to President Moon Jae-in at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. The state audit agency said Monday that it referred a Chung and three other people to the prosecution as they had abused their powers to intentionally delay the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system in a Korean southeastern county. Yonhap

This March 2018 file photo shows National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong speaking to President Moon Jae-in at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. The state audit agency said Monday that it referred a Chung and three other people to the prosecution as they had abused their powers to intentionally delay the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system in a Korean southeastern county. Yonhap

The state audit agency said Monday that it referred a former national security adviser and three others to the prosecution as they had abused their powers to intentionally delay the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system in a southeastern county.

According to the Board of Audit and Inspection, Chung Eui-yong, who also served as foreign minister under the former Moon Jae-in administration, and other senior government officials were found to have intentionally delayed the publication of outcomes of an environmental evaluation, and the risks related to electromagnetic waves and noise from radars.

South Korea's government agreed with the United States in 2016 to install the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery in Seongju, 215 kilometers southeast of Seoul, and the deployment of the launch pad and attached equipment began the following year. (Yonhap)