document: BFN -LSB- Text -RSB- Seoul , May 30 -LRB- YONHAP -RRB- -- The joint military-prosecution investigation team , which probed the assassination of President Pak Chong-hui by then Central Intelligence Agency Director Kim Chae-kyu in October 1979 , had found no evidence that then Army Chief of Staff and martial law commander , Gen. Chong Sung-hwa , was an accomplice in the slaying , a former team member testified recently . Paek Tong-nim , 57 , who served as chief investigator of the Defense Security Command and concurrently as a key member of the joint investigating team , told the prosecution that no concrete evidence of Chong 's involvement had been detected in the course of probing the assassin Kim , according to a spokesman for the Seoul District Public Prosecutor 's Office . The joint investigation headquarters ' announcement on Dec. . 24 , 1979 , charging Chong with high treason was based not on any concrete evidence but on what he did after after Kim killed Pak on the night of Oct. 26 , 1979 , Paek was quoted as saying . The Seoul District Public Prosecutor 's Office is looking into a criminal suit filed by the victims of the Dec. 12 `` coup d'etat-like incident of the Army '' against the perpetrators , including former Presidents Chon Tu-hwan and No Tae-u . Chong Sung-hwa is one of the victims . Paek dismissed as `` not true '' then Defense Minister No Chae-hyon 's statement on Dec. 13 , 1979 , that martial Law Commander Chong was arrested for interrogation because new evidence was discovered in the course of investigating the assassination . The joint probe team felt the need to question Chong because when Kim killed Pak he was nearby and Prosecutor Chong Kyong-sik , a member of the joint team , called on the martial law commander at his office three times to question him about his actions on the assassination day , Paek was quoted as saying . Paek said that without evidence supporting his involvement in the assassination and without then President Choe Kyu-ha 's permission , the joint military-prosecution investigation headquarters , led by then Defense Security Commander Maj. Gen. Chon Tu-hwan forcibly arrested Chong , seemingly because of the headquarters ' `` political motive , '' suggesting that the Dec. 12 incident was a mutiny by the `` new military elite '' to topple the government . The prosecution is considering summoning lawyer Won Kang-hui , who as military prosecutor indicted Chong Sung-hwa on charges of abetting high treason , for questioning . Won recently said there was no criminal evidence against Chong when he indicted him , adding the military prosecution then made `` a different evaluation '' of his actions on the assassination day . The prosecution is expected to shortly conclude its probe into whether Chong was an accomplice in the slaying of Pak Chong-hui in October 1979 .
extractive_keyphrases: military prosecution assassination assassin kim concrete evidence criminal evidence
abstractive_keyphrases: joint military-prosecution investigation team president pak chong-hui gen. chong sung-hwa assassination day