The president said there were no live ammunition during martial law...Prosecutors specify "57,000 shots."

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Although President Yoon Suk Yeol claimed that all soldiers were unarmed at the time of martial law, prosecutors found that the amount of live ammunition mobilized for martial law amounted to 57,000 rounds.

The prosecution's indictment of former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, secured by YTN, contained specific circumstances in which martial law forces were dispatched to the scene with rifles and pistols.

In particular, the Army Special Warfare Command took the most live ammunition, and the 3rd Airborne Brigade and 9th Airborne Brigade, which dispatched troops to the Central Election Commission, were also found to be armed with live ammunition.

In addition to pistols and rifles, the Capital Defense Command was also armed with various firearms such as sniper rifles, shotguns, and flash binge grenades.President

Yoon's side has argued that all martial law troops were unarmed, so to speak, went without a live ammunition load, but would there have been instructions to go in even by shooting a gun?



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