Allegations of Insurrection will be held for 45 days...A separate questionnaire from the President's Office

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A parliamentary investigation will be conducted for the next 45 days to investigate allegations of civil war against Yoon Suk Yeol's president at the time of the emergency martial law.

Questions on pending issues for the presidential office at the level of the National Assembly Standing Committee were also decided by the opposition party.

Reporter Lee Jun-yeop reports.

[Reporter]
A special committee on the investigation of the Yoon Suk Yeol government's suspected civil war, which will be active until February 13, has been launched in earnest with the resolution of the plenary session of the plan.

Ahn Kyu-baek of the Democratic Party was appointed as the chairman, while Kim Sung-won of the People's Power and Han Byung-do of the Democratic Party were appointed as the secretaries of the ruling and opposition parties, respectively.

[Won-Sik Woo / Speaker of the National Assembly: We declare that the Yoon Suk Yeol government's approval of a plan to investigate the allegations of civil war through the declaration of emergency martial law has been approved]

The National Assembly Special Committee will go through institutional reports, field investigations, and hearings, and will examine various suspicions surrounding martial law, including the process of emergency martial law, legality, and the operation of an arrest team for major politicians.

The target organizations included all martial law-related ministries and agencies such as the President's Office and the Cabinet Office, as well as military organizations, the National Police Agency and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.

[Ahn Kyu-baek / Special Chairman of the National Assembly Investigation Committee on Alleged Insurrection: Through thorough investigation into the entire emergency martial law incident, the responsibility is clearly identified, measures are taken to prevent recurrence, and the basic rights of the people are guaranteed....]

Although the ruling and opposition parties were together, they also fought over whether to name the special investigation committee "civil war" or "suspected civil war."

At the first meeting, the People's Power called for a revision, saying that various expressions and scope of investigation in the National Articles Plan were too determined to be a "civil war."

[Kang Sun-young / People's Power: I don't think it's been confirmed yet whether the military forces that were deployed are to illegally arrest lawmakers]

On the other hand, the Democratic Party of Korea countered that more suspicions, such as the operation of inducing the north wind for martial law and the possibility of a second martial law, should be dealt with by the special committee.

[Park Sun-won / Democratic Party member: In order to justify (the civil war), the trend of triggering and exploiting security threats from outside, such as North Korea, must be entered.]

In the midst of this, the National Assembly Steering Committee decided on the 8th to hold a question on the current emergency martial law situation against the president's office, the opposition party alone.

For now, the first step in the parliamentary investigation has been taken away, but the ruling and opposition parties are unlikely to clash with each other from adjusting the schedule to selecting suspicions to be identified.

In particular, whether President Yoon Suk Yeol will adopt witnesses is expected to be the biggest issue.

I'm YTN's Lee Junyeop.



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