SEOUL, May 30 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's foreign ministry on Thursday fired a diplomat who leaked the classified content of phone conversations between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this month.
The ministry's disciplinary committee meeting was held earlier in the day, deciding to fire the diplomat at the South Korean embassy in Washington, according to local media reports.
The diplomat leaked the detail of the confidential Moon-Trump phone conversation to Khang Hyo-shang, a lawmaker of the main conservative opposition Liberty Korea Party.
Khang disclosed the detailed description of the conversation, classified as a level-3 secret here, at a press conference.
President Moon bluntly criticized the lawmaker and the opposition party for using the diplomatic secret as a source of political fights during the cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
Trump would visit Seoul late June on his trip to Asia to attend the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Osaka, Japan, according to the South Korean presidential Blue House.
