Before and after the emergency martial law, the statements of the commanders at the time, from the preparation of martial law forces to the withdrawal, are outlined.
Reporter Park Hee-jae reconstructed the martial law military's timetable based on the testimony released so far.
[Reporter]
Martial Law Forces Appear for the First Time in 45 Years,
According to what has been disclosed so far, the first assignment goes back to at least two days before martial law was declared.
[Kwak Jong-geun / Special Warfare Commander (10th): We received 6 missions on Sunday, December 1st]
[Lee Kyung-min / Chief of Staff of the Defense Security Command (10th): (The commander came back from vacation on December 1st and gave orders to the colonel-level chiefs by communication under the pretext of North Korea's imminent provocation, right?) Yes, that's right.]
Special Warfare troops who were scheduled to be sent to the National Assembly hours before martial law was declared
The higher-intensity emergency call training has been conducted.
[Kim Hyun-tae / 707 Special Operations Team Leader (9th): I called an emergency at 7:50 p.m. that evening. We have to be dispatched within an hour, so...]
The decree announced immediately after martial law seems to have been reviewed step by step until this time.
But who wrote it and how, it's still a mystery.
[Park An-soo / Army Chief of Staff (at the time martial law commander): (Is the decree written by himself? Isn't it written by the president of Yoon Suk Yeol?) I don't know.]
And on December 3rd at 10:28 p.m., the president's surprise declaration of martial law.
[President (3rd): Declares emergency martial law to protect the constitutional order of freedom]
And the entry of martial law forces immediately into at least six locations.
However, the National Assembly will vote on the demand to lift martial law, and the emergency martial law will end in two and a half hours.
[Won-Sik Woo / Speaker of the National Assembly (4th): Of the 190 present, 190 are in favor of the resolution to lift emergency martial law, declaring that the resolution has been passed]
At the time of martial law, special warfare members who were deployed to the National Assembly refused orders to draw down personnel,
Counterintelligence agents who headed to the
Central Election Commission also passively implemented instructions, leaving the scene and heading to convenience stores.
Since then, "Operation Withdrawal" has been carried out in various parts of the Seoul metropolitan area, including special combat members who left the National Assembly near 3 a.m.
Key commanders of martial law forces who followed most of the instructions of the president and the minister.
The circumstances of protesting at a critical moment are also noticeable, but the judgment itself has become inevitable as a "martial offender," whether voluntarily or unintentionally.
[Kim Hyun-tae / 707 Special Operations Team Leader (9th): Members of the unit are victims. I am the most unfortunate victim used by Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun. The troops are not guilty. If you are guilty, you are only guilty of following the instructions of an incompetent commander.
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