It is official at least according to the Korean police that former President Roh Moo-hyun’s death was a suicide:

“Owl Rock” offers a unique vantage point from which to look out over Bongwha Village, the hometown of the late former President Roh Moo-hyun, May 26.

Police concluded Friday that former President Roh Moo-hyun took his own life by jumping off a mountain cliff near his home in the south of the country, wrapping up its investigation into the death of the former leader.

“We have terminated our investigation after concluding that former President Roh Moo-hyun died after jumping from a 45-meter cliff, known as Owl’s Rock on Mount Bonhwa,” police in South Gyeongsang Province said.

Roh, who served as president from 2003-2008, died on May 23 at the age of 62 amid a corruption probe involving the former leader and his family.  [Yonhap via Kimchi GI]

Roh’s family has supposedly concurred with the results and the police say they will bring no prosecution against the bodyguard who kept changing his story to cover for the fact that he did not stay with Roh the entire time during the morning hike.  The Security Service is going to launch an investigation against him and you would think at the very least he should lose his job.