Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Kim Man-soo said Wednesday the official identified as Lee Jong-heon got the minutes from another official dispatched from the Foreign Ministry and showed them to Rep. Choi Jae-cheon of the ruling Uri Party when they met at a hotel downtown Seoul in late January, where Choi copied them.

The presidential office decided to send Lee back to the ministry, which will comply with a Cheong Wa Dae request to take disciplinary action against him. But Kim said the office had not yet discovered who leaked another classified document to Choi that discusses a Seoul-Washington agreement on strategic flexibility for the U.S. Forces Korea . The agreement allows the U.S. to dispatch USFK troops to acute trouble spots elsewhere in the world.

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