Lt. Gen. Kwak Jong-keun, entrance, chief of the Military Particular Warfare Command, solutions lawmakers‘ questions throughout a particular committee assembly on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial regulation on the Nationwide Meeting in Seoul, Jan. 14. Yonhap
A parliamentary particular committee on Tuesday carried out its first inquiry into the protection ministry and different navy commanders allegedly concerned in President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial regulation.
Late final month, the Nationwide Meeting launched a particular 18-member committee to look into Yoon’s rebel allegations till Feb. 13.
Key witnesses, together with Military Chief of Employees Gen. Park An-su, who served as martial regulation commander, and Lt. Gen. Kwak Jong-keun, chief of the Military Particular Warfare Command, had been current on the session.
Lt. Gen. Yeo In-hyung, head of the Protection Counterintelligence Command, who’s suspected of sending troops to the Nationwide Meeting and the Nationwide Election Fee, and ordering the arrest of the leaders of the ruling and predominant opposition events, didn’t present up on the assembly.
In the course of the session, lawmakers from the ruling Folks Energy Social gathering (PPP) and the principle opposition Democratic Social gathering of Korea (DPK) primarily clashed over the legitimacy of the martial regulation declaration.
The PPP additionally criticized the DPK’s choice to incorporate allegations that Yoon dedicated „treason“ by making an attempt to intentionally incite international aggression in a brand new particular probe invoice.
In the meantime, opposition lawmakers took concern with the mobilization of the navy through the martial regulation imposition.
„The navy mobilized throughout martial regulation was on standby with over 180,000 rounds of ammunition,“ DPK Rep. Min Hong-chul mentioned in his inquiry into Kwak, criticizing it as an try to „flip Seoul right into a second Gwangju“ akin to the 1980 bloodbath of pro-democracy protests within the southwestern metropolis. (Yonhap)
