Selective right to remain silent?... background statement of President Yoon's declaration of martial law

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President Yoon Suk Yeol reportedly refused to make all statements during the investigation on the first day of his arrest.

It was found that the background of the declaration of the emergency martial law was directly revealed.

It is pointed out that it is an optional exercise of the right to remain silent.

Reporter Kwon Junsu reports.

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President Yoon Suk Yeol, who exercised his right to veto statements in the first investigation for more than 10 hours.

While not answering questions from the prosecutor of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, it was found that the declaration of martial law was the president's own authority.

President Yoon made his own argument about the background of declaring martial law.

It is reported that the content is not much different from the public statement on December 12 last year.The massive opposition

did not budge from the position that martial law was inevitable by paralyzing the state administration, including a significant budget cut.

[Yoon Suk Yeol / President (public statement on December 12): (The opposition party) has paralyzed the state of affairs due to the abuse of impeachment. Impeach the ministers, the heads of the Board of Audit and Inspection and prosecutors who investigated their misconduct....]

An official from the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit also met with reporters and explained that the president's refusal to make a statement was to say that there was no answer to the prosecutor's question.

In the end, it is pointed out that the investigation of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit declared martial law with the president's own authority and only repeated the claim that the circumstances were justified, but that he exercised the right to remain silent.President

Yoon's side refused to comply with the second investigation, but also stated that they had already talked enough in the first investigation.

President Yoon's remarks were recorded in the record, but President Yoon refused to read and seal
The admissibility of evidence is unlikely to be recognized in the upcoming trial
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I'm YTN Kwon Junsu.

Video editing; Lee Jae-eun
Design; Lee Wonhee