Ministers bent down..."Coups" vs "high-level acts of governance"

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The State Council members who were called to the National Assembly due to the martial law incident bowed down and apologized.

The same was true of the ruling party lawmakers who apologized, but they also expressed a difference of perception with the opposition party over the incident, with the saying that "emergency martial law is a high-level political act" during the later remarks.

Reporter Song Jae-in's report.

[Reporter]
At the start of the urgent questioning, the opposition party harshly criticized the State Council members for failing to prevent martial law.

[Seo Young-kyo / Minjoo Party Member: The Republic of Korea was in crisis. Now, all the members of the State Council, please stand up and apologize to the people.

In the end, except for one Minister of Employment and Labor, Kim Moon-soo, the members of the State Council who rose from their seats and apologized.

Furthermore, Prime Minister Han Deok-soo bowed down several times, saying there were many flaws in the Cabinet meeting before declaring martial law, but the opposition continued to criticize that even this apology would be false.

[Park Beom-gye / Minjoo Party member: Prime Minister Han Deok-soo and ruling party's People's Power Han Dong-hoon staged a soft coup through a "Korea-Korea coalition."]

[Han Deok-soo / Prime Minister: It's about strengthening the consultation between the government and the government, but how do you say that the two share power that violates the Constitution and the law?]]

Members of the ruling party also bowed their heads before questioning.

After encouraging the members of the State Council, saying they are having a hard time handling state affairs, he appealed, saying that if the impeachment becomes a reality, the confusion will grow.

[Choi Hyung-doo / People's Power] I want to discuss whether there is no third way or not to repeat the misfortune of impeachment six years ago and impeachment eight years ago.]

The plenary session hall, which had been noisy throughout the difference in perception between the ruling and opposition parties, was eventually turned into a chaos due to the remarks of lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun, who was questioning the "investigation into allegations of civil war."

[Yoon Sang-hyun / People's Power Member] If you look at the Supreme Court case in 1997, emergency martial law is considered a highly political and governmental act. (In this regard) Refrain from judicial review while respecting the president's authority, judge unconstitutionality while restraining. This is the Supreme Court precedent.
In an unusual move, even the speaker of the National Assembly raised the issue.

[Won-Sik Woo / Speaker of the National Assembly: At the order of the president, the military came into the National Assembly with guns. Does it make sense to talk about it as an act of governance? As a member of Congress....]

Regarding Yoon Sang-hyun's remarks, a message from ruling party lawmakers who were concerned about "should we refrain from talking." was also captured in the media.

I'm Song Jaein of YTN.

a photographer; Lee Seong-mo, Han Sang-won Video editing; Lee Jung-wook