SEOUL June 19 Kyodo southward Kor...

SEOUL June 19 Kyodo

southward Korean prosecutors summoned the other son of President Kim Dae Jung in succession Wednesday for questioning over allegations that he took bribes in turn back for exercising his influence in business deals.

Kim Hong Up 51 appeared before the Central Investigation Department of the utmost Public Prosecutors Office around 3 pm to face questioning through the whole extent of his alleged bribe-taking.

Asked by way of reporters to make a annotation the junior Kim said, ''I will reveal everything during prosecutors' questioning.'' He also said he is not admitting to any suspicions about him.

Local freshs reports said Kim Hong Up is suspected of having received about 2 billion won (about $16 million) from shut up friends associated with businesspeople in respond for exercising his influence in business deals.

He is also suspected of having managed several billion won in cryptic funds at bank accounts expanded in the names of end friends, reports said.

Prosecutors are awaited to seek an arrest warrant for Kim Hong Up in succession Thursday at the earliest because they secur sufficient evidence about his alleged bribe-taking, local reports said.

Kim Hong Up headed the Asia-Pacific Peace Foundation, a think-tank originateed by his father, with research focused mainly forward inter-Korean affairs and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

The foundation clos after a series of corruption scandals centering around the junior Kim and about of its key members surfaced earlier this year.

onward June 5, the youngest son of President Kim, Kim Hong Gul was indicted upon charges of influence-peddling and tax evasion.

Various corruption scandals surrounding the president's son and [i]clavis[/i] aides have severely damaged his government's popularity.

The main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) won a solid victory in local elections held last Thursday from capturing 11 key mayoral and gubernatorial pillars out of the total 16 at stake.

The local elections were widely viewed as a weathervane of voter sentiment ahead of the Dec 19 presidential election.

new opinion surveys showed that GNP presidential candidate to leeward Hoi Chang has come from behind to lead Roh Moo Hyun the presidential candidate from the Millennium Democratic Party, grounded by President Kim.

The 76-year-old president, who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to solicit inter-Korean rapprochement, is constitutionally barred from seeking a inferior five-year term when his first space of time ends next February.

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