Suspicions of the National Security Office's "request for the recruitment of martial law personnel from intelligence agencies" said, "It's not true."

The National Security Office said it was not true about allegations that active-duty soldiers from the Security Office requested the Intelligence Command to take out additional personnel during the December 3 emergency martial law.

The security office issued a notice and said the allegations raised by the National Assembly's special committee on parliamentary investigations were not true.

In Seong-hwan, the second deputy chief of the National Security Office, attended the special committee today and said he did not know about the fact that an employee of the security office from the special mission of the Defense Intelligence Command asked the intelligence agency before and after martial law.

Kim Tae-hyo, the first deputy chief of the Security Office, said about the HID unit's encouraging visit two years ago that the unit's salary was poor, so he visited to help improve treatment.

Earlier, the opposition raised suspicions that a senior security office official visited the HID unit in 2023 and selected an agent from HID to plan martial law, which the president's office refuted as an absurd leap.

In the meantime, the security office said it would initiate communication between the South Korean and U.S. governments as soon as the second Trump administration is launched.

Since Trump's inauguration, the new White House administration and the National Security Office are said to start communicating soon, and the foreign and defense ministries are also talking about high-level communications, including ministers.

He added that Korea, China, and Japan are also continuing to talk closely with China to ensure that the Soda-ja consultative body can work well.