Prosecution opens probe into disclosure of Roh's summit remarks

Prosecutors said Monday they began looking into allegations that a group of ruling party lawmakers illegally read and disclosed classified documents containing excerpts of late President Roh Moo-hyun's remarks from his 2007 summit with late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il about a sensitive defense issue.

The documents have been the subject of intense wrangling between rival political parties since a ruling party lawmaker claimed in October of last year that Roh had told Kim during the meeting in Pyongyang six years ago that Seoul would not insist on the Yellow Sea border, called the Northern Limit Line (NLL), which Pyongyang refuses to recognize as a legitimate maritime border.

Chung Moon-hun of the ruling Saenuri Party claimed to have read the National Intelligence Service's (NIS) classified documents on the alleged conversation between the two deceased leaders.