[On-site video+] Yoon Gap-geun, "尹, if there are no special variables, he will attend the Constitutional Court trial."

2025.01.21. PM 4:53
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[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
We explained our position, explained the evidence we submitted to us, and the president who came out in person answered the judge's questions with greetings. Overall, the trial is going smoothly, but as lawyer Do Tae-woo said at the end, there are still many regrets about fairness and neutrality.

[Reporter]
You haven't been here for an hour, what did you talk about?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
Various problems in today's trial process, problems of the other claimant's side. And we discussed whether the things we prepared were enough and how we should prepare for the next date.

[Reporter]
Today, the president said he never gave me that document with an emergency legislative body, but Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok testified to the National Assembly that the president asked me to claim it.

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
According to the minutes of the National Assembly's meeting, it says it was received from a working-level worker. The president says he hasn't actually seen the document, and I think the actual relationship will be revealed there because he applied for a witness to Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun on the 23rd.

[Reporter]
Did the decree No. 1 fail to inspect and just come out like this as a mistake as submitted by former Minister Kim Yong-hyun?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
It's hard to say it's a mistake. I will fully express my opinion through the trial later, but the decree under the emergency decree must be in place in form, and since it is prepared according to the nature of the emergency decree, it is difficult to say that it is a decree with the intention to carry out the action plan and implementation plan properly.

[Reporter]
Do you admit that it's unconstitutional? unconstitutionality of the content itself

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
The unconstitutionality of the content itself is to be reviewed with the specific action plan of the content, and it is difficult to see the literature itself.

[Reporter]
It says that party activities are prohibited, but are you saying that it's not unconstitutional?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
What grounds do you think it's unconstitutional? The Constitutional Court will later reveal that it has a deep meaning, and ask then. Then it will be explained and interpreted then.

[Reporter]
Do you admit that you were poor throughout the whole martial law process?

[Kap-geun Yoon]
I think the insolvency of the martial law procedure will be fully explained during the trial process, and some misunderstandings will be resolved.

[Reporter]
The NEC said it gave instructions for screening, but if there is a problem, the investigative agency can request an investigation, so why did you want to do it that way?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
There have been various checks on whether the election management system is working properly, and it turns out that there are many problems there, and there has been a lot of controversy for too long over whether it is rigged or rigged. However, since it is not resolved properly and problems are continuously being raised, it is checked in the future to prevent such division of public opinion. Aren't elections the system that forms the basis of democracy? So in terms of securing fairness, the president wanted to solve it, and he just wanted to check it as a solution.

[Reporter]
Do you have to be in the military to inspect it?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
When I declared emergency martial law, soldiers went, and I would like to say that there were parts that were lacking within the boundaries of the law and parts that were not actually resolved.

[Reporter]
Regarding the decree, Minister Kim Yong-hyun said that he only wrote the draft and the president reviewed it.

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
That's the first time I've heard that, and it will be revealed in the next witness questioning.

[Reporter]
Then, if former Minister Kim Yong-hyun comes out as a witness, do you think it will have no effect on facing the president?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
The president is also the president, but Minister Kim Yong-hyun is also a person enough to serve as the defense minister. And from the perspective of the minister, who was deeply involved in martial law, he is evaluated as a person who can speak with confidence no matter how much he or she is in front of the president.

[Reporter]
The president looked very tired and emaciated, do you have any difficulties or health problems in your health or mental aspects?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
From what I hear, I don't know that there is an unusual health problem, but anyway, there are a lot of conflicts and difficulties in mind because of a lot of changes in the environment and various difficulties you are experiencing as a president. I think that's a given.

[Reporter]
Has it been concluded that all President Yoon will attend in person by the 8th pleading date?

[Yoon Gap-geun [Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
Right now, as of now, you will attend if possible, and if there are no special variables, you will probably attend.

[Reporter]
You said there was no arrest order, but was there an order for the arrest of CEO Lee Jae-myung?

[Yoon Gap-geun/President Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer] There was no ∀.

[Reporter]
Has the president of the emergency legislative body not reviewed it at all?

[Yoon Gap-geun/President Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
There's no one.

[Reporter]
Can you tell me what happened at the detention center yesterday because the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit went in? Yesterday, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit went to the detention center. Can you also explain the situation at that time? You said you'd tell me when you came out.

[Yoon Gap-geun/President Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
The situation in the detention center came from the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit during the interview with the lawyer, and the detention center was executed with an arrest warrant. Then the detention center is Seoul Detention Center, and all authority is held by the detention center. So, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit cannot have the authority to come there carelessly and do inches. I understand that it was not properly executed in the process.

[Reporter]
Are you not going to respond to the investigation in the future?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
In the future, I will think about the method of the investigation process, but I think it is difficult to proceed in the current state.

[Reporter]
Is it possible that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit will not be able to transfer the case to the prosecution?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
If it is sent to the prosecution, if it is transferred, I will see the situation again and tell you.

[Reporter]
Then, are you saying that you may not respond?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
What are you not responding to?

[Reporter]
If the case is transferred to the prosecution...

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
No, I said I'd talk about it after seeing the situation then.

[Reporter]
He also said that he would go to the Central District Prosecutors' Office and file a new claim with the Central District Court.

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
I haven't reviewed it yet.

[Reporter]
Has the president ever instructed the security to delete the call history on the non-Phone?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
That's the first time I've heard of it. It's not true, it's my first time hearing that.

[Reporter]
Are you considering arresting him?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
We haven't reviewed it in detail yet. Are you interrogating me now? I told you that it was all done within the boundaries of the law.

[Reporter]
There was a ban on correspondence. Can that be considered common?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
I don't think that should really happen. The prohibition of correspondence and things like that have been announced as concerns about the destruction of evidence, and that is actually the case, which is not the case, and even though the president is suspended, he is a sitting president. I think it's really an anti-humanitarian act to ban correspondence without any corroborating evidence that there is a risk of destroying evidence.

[Reporter]
But before, you said you would comply with the prosecution's investigation, but is there a reason why you suddenly show reservations?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
I've never said that before. I've never taken a reserved attitude now, and the investigation situation is changing so rapidly that I'll go and tell you my judgment at that time.

[Reporter]
You said you would not attend the Constitutional Court if the conditions for the sedition of the rebellion were not lifted, is there a reason why you are attending from today?

[Yoon Gap-geun / Yoon Suk Yeol's lawyer]
I remember that I never said that.


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