Accusations of propaganda against civil war vs. counter-insurrection of innocence...a battle between the ruling and opposition parties

[Anchor]
The opposition parties, including the Democratic Party of Korea, accused politicians of propaganda of people's power, and further accused eight ruling party officials, including officials from the presidential office, of rebellion.

He accused the Democratic Party of innocence, saying that the power of the people is false and distorted.

This is reporter Son Hyo-jung.

[Reporter]
The Democratic Party of Korea accused eight ruling party politicians, including floor leader Kwon Sung-dong, of "propaganda of rebellion" for justifying emergency martial law.

This time, eight ruling party figures, including Park Jong-joon, the presidential secretary of security, chief of staff Jeong Jin-seok, and Justice Minister Park Sung-jae, were additionally accused of "insurrection."

The Democratic Party of Korea said they were plotting a civil war in the president's safe house before martial law was declared,
After the decision to lift martial law in the
National Assembly, he/she appeared to have attended a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's resolution office, urging them to thoroughly clarify whether they participated in the civil war.

[Kim Sung-hoe/ Spokesperson of the Democratic Party of Korea: There were two charges against 12 people related to propaganda of civil war, including charges related to conspiracy of civil war and second martial law....]

The People's Power protested that the accusation of propaganda of civil war is a distortion of the law and indiscriminate "cabbing of civil war" and accused the Democratic Party of innocence.

The crime of propaganda of civil war can only be established as an act before civil war by law, but there has been no defense or propaganda of martial law before and after emergency martial law.

How can it be a crime to criticize the Democratic Party of Korea's successive impeachment drive and budget cuts, pointing out that the resulting accusation is "Lee Jae-myung-style fear politics."

[Park Hyung-soo / Deputy floor leader of People's Power: (That doesn't mean) we can stop our party and the people from talking. The Democratic Party of Korea's accusation of propaganda and incitement of rebellion constitutes an innocent crime under the criminal law..]

In the midst of this, the ruling and opposition parties decided to speed up the discussion of the New Year's bill on people's livelihoods, centered on the national council.

[Kim Sang-hoon / People's Power Policy Committee Chairman: From next week after the mourning period ends, we propose a working-level meeting between the policy committee chairmen of both parties regarding the composition and operation of the ruling and opposition parties.]

[Cho Seung-rae / Senior spokesman for the Minjoo Party: What should we do to postpone the working-level consultation until next week? Shouldn't we meet right away to discuss the agenda and do that?]

However, unexpected variables can arise at any time in the process of impeachment and attempting to execute the president's arrest warrant, and there is still a difference in views between the ruling and opposition parties over each bill on people's livelihoods, which is expected to lead to difficulties in reaching an actual agreement.

I'm Son Hyojung of YTN.