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When the People’s Power accused members of the Moon Jae-in government and representatives of civic groups who were involved in the process of exposing martial law documents written during the Park Geun-hye administration, the Military Human Rights Center, a party to it, strongly protested.
Lim Tae-hoon, director of the Military Human Rights Center, held a press conference today and said, “The power of the people has been accused of leaking military secrets twice in 2018, saying that the Blue House or the Defense Minister handed over martial law documents to the Military Human Rights Center, but both were acquitted. “Nevertheless, I submitted another complaint with the same content,” he criticized.
Lim said, “Even though martial law is under the jurisdiction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it is a problem in itself that the security guard, an intelligence agency, has written a martial law plan that is not within the scope of his mission. “The plan to dissolve the National Assembly by mobilizing the government is also illegal,” he pointed out.
“The people’s power should not be accusing the civic groups that exposed the documents three times, but it is correct to devise an investigation into the former security commander Cho Hyeon-cheon, who has fled overseas,” he said. I have no choice but to understand that it means that we are going to do the same thing, such as sending in the military once morest citizens.”
Earlier, the People’s Power National Security Disturbance Investigation Team said, “When former Defense Minister Song Young-moo received a report on the martial law document and asked former Auditor General Choi Jae-hyung to review it, he received an authoritative interpretation that ‘there is no legal problem in the plan for the worst’.” “Nevertheless, former Minister Song and Major Lim disregarded this and leaked second-level military secrets to the outside,” he said.