Prosecution to announce probe results on summit transcript Friday

    (Yonhap) -- The prosecution said Thursday it will announce on the following day the outcome of its investigation into suspicions surrounding the disappearance of the transcript of the 2007 inter-Korean summit.

   The announcement will be made at 2 p.m. Friday at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul, the prosecution said.

   The minutes, which transcribe the summit talks between then South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, raised political controversy after the ruling Saenuri Party claimed that Roh had made remarks to the effect of surrendering the western maritime border -- called the Northern Limit Line -- to North Korea,

   The rival parties agreed earlier this year to settle the dispute by jointly viewing the transcript, but discovered to their surprise that it was missing from the state archives.

   After a search through the archives, prosecutors concluded last month that the minutes were deleted from the electronic documentation system of Roh's presidential office and were never filed with the National Archives of Korea.

   Based on the findings, prosecutors have been questioning former Roh administration officials since early last month to uncover why the original version of the transcript was deleted and why the revised version was not transferred to the archives. The officials being questioned were those involved in the production, management and transfer of presidential records at that time.