[Scene video +] Kim Yong-hyun said, "Gyeom, to make the alarm sound...There were no casualties.

[Anchor]
Former Minister Kim Yong-hyun, who was first arrested on charges of rebellion, will hold a press conference.

Ahead of the prosecution's indictment, it is expected to claim the legitimacy of declaring emergency martial law and the illegality of the investigation.

Let's go to the scene.

[Yoo Seungsoo / Kim Yonghyun's lawyer]
I will read the press conference of former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, which was distributed first. Former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun's press conference. Defense lawyers for former Minister Kim Yong-hyun on December 24, 2024. the background of the declaration of martial law It is the same as the two presidential statements at the time of the martial law declaration and after martial law.

First, to raise the alarm about political corruption using the National Assembly. It is to raise the alarm about the political malice using the National Assembly, which holds a bulletproof National Assembly to avoid criminal responsibility of the party leader due to the tyranny of the majority party, proposes impeachment 22 times, and attempts to abolish the budget. A political party that wants to paralyze state administration and make it a plant president cannot be regarded as a political party for the people. Second, it is to resolve and investigate public suspicions about the election of the Republic of Korea. Raising public suspicions about the election management of Korea is nothing new. It is the government's role and, above all, the Election Commission's own responsibility to resolve these suspicions.

However, the National Election Commission refused to audit the Board of Audit and Inspection, refused to search and seizure by the prosecution, and finally refused to check the NIS' security system and submitted only virtual servers. The results of the National Intelligence Service's security inspection of the Central Election Commission server were shocking. It turns out that it's almost defenseless to actual hacking attacks and that manipulation of electors' lists is also too easy to measure the level of security. In this investigation, investigative agencies and courts have made it a fact that allegations of fraudulent elections have been resolved through several accusations and lawsuits for invalidity of the election. However, no one in Korea has investigated, investigated, or verified the real life of the Central Election Commission's server. If this problem is no longer resolved by litigation or investigation, it is the president's responsibility to confirm it through special measures. Third, it is to pass down a free Korea to future generations by establishing positions in various parts of our society and organizing pro-North Korean juche and anti-state forces. Anti-state forces are lethargic to all levels of society, manipulating public opinion, inciting political instability, and plotting to overthrow the state. The Free Republic of Korea has been constantly suffering from the threat of these forces, and if we stand by these threats, we can predict that the country will be overthrown. Even though the fiction of communism and the danger of totalitarianism have already been proven, the forces that are obsessed with dangerous fictional ideologies and try to overthrow a free Korea are still alive and well in our country.

It is the duty of the ruler of this era to pass down the Republic of Korea to future generations from them. Next, I will talk about the fact that emergency martial law cannot correspond to civil war. The president's declaration of a legitimate emergency martial law cannot be a civil war. Unlike the National Assembly and the courts, the Constitution provides the authority to declare emergency martial law only to the president. The National Assembly's majority party has impeached Cabinet members indiscriminately dozens of times. In the end, we decided to abolish the budget necessary for state affairs. Specifically, it not only abolished all the special activity expenses of the presidential office and investigative agencies, but also decided to abolish the budget from 50.5 billion to 800 million for the development of the East Sea deep-sea gas field.

Even the head of the Board of Audit and Inspection and other constitutional institutions were about to be impeached. Such anti-constitutional decisions and irresponsible agitation by political forces using the National Assembly shake the foundation of democracy and disturb the national flag, but no one called it a rebellion. On the other hand, the president declared an emergency martial law in accordance with the Constitution and laws, and political circles, including the opposition party, have not stopped agitating for a civil war.

In such a parliamentary dictatorship, we are again impeaching the president elected by the entire people with a majority vote. Political forces using the National Assembly have produced numerous unconstitutional laws and unconstitutional measures in the previous administration, and are now pushing for indiscriminate impeachment of State Council members and legislation for Lee Jae-myung's bulletproofness.There has never been a case in which
has held the law responsible for the defeat of political forces using the same National Assembly. The resulting emergency is still intensifying.
It is clear that the lifting of this emergency decree was also legally lifted in response to the National Assembly's request for the lifting. In addition, the Democratic Party of Korea's claim that the authority on impeachment and budget is the legitimate authority of the National Assembly and that the constitutional president's emergency martial law is a contradictory position in itself, and as always, it is a serious attempt to bring down the president elected by the people through agitation.

Whether or not an emergency martial law is an emergency is entirely up to the president to judge it. Even if it is subject to judicial control by making a hundred concessions, it is the duty of the court to respect the president's right to rule, which the entire people voted for. Foreign media reports that the current situation is a democratic operation. In other words, we report the entire situation now that martial law has been declared and martial law has been lifted through demands for the lifting of martial law.

It is clear that martial law was a wake-up call, and there were no casualties at all, and an orderly withdrawal was made under the control of each commander after the martial law was lifted. When the argument that martial law itself is a civil war loses its persuasive power, the behavior of forces indiscriminately instigating by adding irrelevant false facts is a hindrance to the operation of democracy. Next, I will tell you about the background of the declaration of martial law by the president on December 3rd. Under the current administration, there have been 22 impeachment attempts to paralyze the state administration with the tyranny of the majority party. Even though the attempt to impeach the constitutional agency should bear the responsibility, he proposed the impeachment of the auditor on December 2nd, rather than reflecting on the impeachment attempt, and had scheduled a vote on the impeachment bill on December 4th. Impeaching an investigative prosecutor by the opposition party just because the party leader is being investigated is like removing the investigative agency itself. The decision to abolish the budget by paralyzing the state administration and neutralizing the administration by voting on the budget is the same as eliminating the state administration. We'll consider this a state of emergency...







[Lee Ha-sang / Kim Yong-hyun's lawyer]