"I can't even catch my trouser crotch"... What's the possibility of punishing a member of the "Ceremony" State Council?

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Due to the martial law crisis, ministers, including Prime Minister Han Deok-soo, have been investigated.

It was due to a Cabinet meeting just before the emergency martial law was declared, and we examined how likely the punishment would be.

Reporter Lee Seung-bae reports.

[Reporter]
Heads of ministries who attended the National Assembly bowed their heads one after another to the rebuke that they were accomplices in the civil war that failed to prevent martial law.

[Seo Young-kyo / Democratic Party member (last 11th, plenary session of the National Assembly): All members of the State Council should say hello again now, saying, "I apologize 100 times to the people."]

A total of 11 people gathered before the emergency martial law was declared, including Prime Minister Han Deok-soo and the head of the National Intelligence Service of some ministries.

Under the criminal law, the crime of rebellion is punished by dividing it into three types, including the head and the important duties, and simple participation.

You can be sentenced to up to five years in prison if you perform hatching and follow along without any backbone.

It is the basis for the claim that even the State Council members who did not stop martial law can be punished for rebellion,

There is an analysis that 'silence' can also be a sin.

[Lee Chang-hyun/Professor of law at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: (The State Council member) believes that unconstitutional emergency martial law has the duty and responsibility to clearly express opposition.]

However, some predict that punishment will be difficult as the Cabinet meeting is a deliberation body, not a resolution, and even that has not been held properly.

In particular, it is evaluated as an accomplice or member only when there is a willingness to participate in a crime,
The fact that you didn't stop
alone won't be seen as an accomplice.

In addition, the general view is that punishment is difficult if the opposition is clearly expressed.

[Song Mi-ryeong / Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (last 11th, plenary session of the National Assembly): We are not in a situation where we can hold on to our trousers and stop them with our bodies. So I'm really sorry.

It is reported that all members of the State Council, including Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yeol, were opposed to following President Yoon to the briefing room.

In the absence of minutes, how specifically the situation at the time can be reconstructed from statements alone is expected to determine whether or not the State Council member will be punished.

I'm YTN's Lee Seungbae.



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