Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-06
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Prosecutors were likely to summon Kuomintang policy chief Alex Tsai for questioning as a witness in connection with last week’s missile misfiring, reports said Wednesday.

The prominent ex-lawmaker was one of the first to make the incident public online, leading to allegations that he had been guilty or at least involved in leaking confidential military information.

Last Friday, a junior officer fired off a supersonic Hsiung Feng III missile by accident during a drill on a corvette in Kaohsiung, hitting a fishing trawler and killing its captain.

Premier Lin Chuan and the military expressed anger about the early leaks about the incident, saying the reports endangered national security. As a result, the military filed a suit, asking the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office to investigate the leaks for violation of confidential military secret laws.     [FULL  STORY]