@TheCaz64 I don’t know what would satisfy as an explanation. The proximate answer is that the National Assembly were closing in on him, and he played his final card. Incompetently.
The response from the president's office seems rather... odd:
1) This (친)오빠 etc is a lie. Everyone knows it.
2) "사적으로 나눈 대화" implies that she not only had a personal relationship with #명태균 but this means that the president's office is confirming that the... 1/n