The Lee Jae-myung administration, stop lying.

The decision to send two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea was not a sudden one.
The government has already been disclosing for several months that the two individuals wished to go to South Korea
and that discussions were being held with the Ukrainian government.
However, once the two individuals actually arrived in the Republic of Korea,
President Lee Jae-myung explained,
“We agreed to keep the trip to Korea itself confidential.”
This is difficult to accept.
Furthermore, the Ukrainian President's Office has essentially provided a different explanation.
They stated that “sending them in secret would have been strange”
and claimed they only disclosed the fact that they had sent them to South Korea.
If that were the case, all the government needed to say to the public was this:
“Two North Korean prisoners of war who wished to come to the Republic of Korea have entered the country safely.
The government will not disclose further details to ensure the safety of the individuals and their families.”
We are not asking for their names to be revealed.
We are not asking for their faces to be shown.
There is no need to disclose the date of entry, the route taken, or their current location.
One can distinguish between information that must be protected for safety
and facts that must be disclosed to the public.
Yet, the Lee Jae-myung administration claims that even that single sentence was dangerous.
What is even harder to understand is the President's attitude.
Toward the citizens and the political circles criticizing his decision for non-disclosure, he even used words like “murderer” and “traitor.”
If there truly was a confidential agreement, what the government needs to do is simple.
They simply need to explain when, with whom, and to what extent it was agreed to keep matters confidential.
For a government that had already been making the negotiations for the trip to Korea public to now claim
that “the fact that they came to Korea itself was a secret that could not be disclosed for national security,”
an explanation commensurate with such a claim is required.
The moment words like “murderer” and “traitor” come out instead of an explanation, doubts only grow larger.
Did that single sentence truly put those two young men in danger?
Or was there another reason the government did not want to inform the public?
The person who must provide the answer is not the criticizing citizens, but the Lee Jae-myung administration.
How far does the Lee Jae-myung administration intend to fall?