SEOUL: South Korea's prime minister promised Monday to "accurately reveal" the truth behind allegations that the domestic spy service interfered in last year's presidential election.
Opposition parties have spent weeks hammering President Park Geun-Hye's administration over the issue, suggesting that it calls the legitimacy of her December poll victory into question.
"The government will accurately reveal what happened and what caused it," Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won said in a public statement.
"The government will not hesitate to take necessary actions" against anyone found responsible of wrongdoing, he added.
The allegations focus on the origin of multiple online messages, posted prior to polling day, that denounced opposition presidential candidate Moon Jae-In as a North Korean sympathiser, while extolling the virtues of ruling party candidate Park.
While initially dismissed as the work of a couple of maverick National Intelligence Service (NIS) agents, further investigations have suggested a wider, coordinated smear campaign.
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