"Surprised" by unexpected infiltration...The arrestable moments [now news]

The high-ranking government official's criminal investigation office and police, which re-executed Yoon Suk Yeol's arrest warrant, crossed the third cordon and entered the interior about three hours after presenting the warrant in front of the official residence.

At 10:33 a.m., the Emergency Security Joint Investigation Headquarters announced that it had executed an arrest warrant for President Yoon.

This is in contrast to the fact that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and the police were confronted with the bodyguard during the first warrant execution on the 3rd and withdrew in about five hours.

The biggest reason for the easy execution of the arrest warrant is, of course, the passive attitude of the security service, but the Army Capital Defense Command 55th Guard Corps and 33rd Military Police Guard, which were mobilized as "human bands" in the cordon of the official residence during the first execution, were also not noticeable this time.

The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and the police were said to have been greatly embarrassed when unexpected military personnel blocked them at the time of the first execution, but as criticism poured out over allegations of mobilizing private soldiers, the Ministry of National Defense said it was inappropriate to put troops in the process of stopping arrest warrants and said it would not cooperate with the second warrant execution.

Today, most of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cordons in the official residence are made up of car walls, which seems to have allowed police and others to quickly enter the official residence.

Some personnel believed to be security officials gathered at the entrance of the residence, but there was no conflict in the entry process.

While there were few deterring personnel, the incoming police made full preparations, including detailed operational plans through repeated meetings.

On the 3rd, 150 people, including 30 personnel from the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit and 120 police personnel, were deployed, and the police drastically increased the number of personnel to more than eight times and 1,000 people ahead of the second execution, putting pressure on them with "human tactics."

In particular, detectives from the Seoul and metropolitan area's wide-area investigation teams with extensive field experience were deployed, and roles such as entry tanks, arrest tanks, and convoys were divided in advance, and ladders and cutters were also prepared to enter the official residence, which has become a "fortress" due to car walls and barbed wire.

According to military instructors and others, the ideal ratio of attackers and defenders for operational success is known to be more than 3 to 1 when conducting attack and defense operations.

In other words, the number of attackers has to be at least three times the number of defenders to be successful, but in this arrest operation, a much larger number of people were put in to overwhelm the security personnel.

In addition to the official residence gate expected by everyone, they also planned to infiltrate through the Maebongsan Mountain hiking trail after the official residence, distracting the security service's attention.

In addition, when about 50 supporters of President Yoon in front of his residence went on a sit-in the previous night, a task force was deployed to quickly disperse them and secure the access road for the arrest group in advance.

More than 3,200 troops from 54 units were deployed around the residence on the 3rd (45 units, about 2,700) to manage order, and the rally outside the residence ended without much conflict despite the unprecedented arrest of the incumbent president.


AI Anchor | Y-GO
Edit Caption | Lee Mi-young


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