"I didn't get any disaster messages".Why was it quiet even under emergency martial law? [This is the news]

It was pointed out that even after the declaration of an emergency martial law, disaster messages were not sent, adding to the confusion among citizens.

On the night of the 3rd, President Yoon Suk Yeol held an emergency statement at the Presidential Office in Yongsan and declared an emergency martial law.

It was the first martial law declaration in 44 years since the May 18 Democratic Movement in 1980. Since then, armed martial law troops have flocked to the National Assembly, and each local government's city hall and provincial government have been closed one after another.

Citizens knew this situation through news and social media. This is because the Ministry of Public Administration and Security did not send emergency disaster texts as it responded to martial law-related ministries.

Even when the resolution to lift the emergency martial law was approved at the plenary session of the National Assembly at around 1 a.m. on the 4th, no disaster messages were sent.

According to the disaster text broadcasting standards and operating regulations, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security should send disaster text messages to situations such as ▲ natural disaster situation information related to weather reports ▲ large-scale social disaster situation information ▲ national emergency situation information ▲ civil air defense warnings including training.

An official from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said, "I understand that the working-level department did not send martial law because it judged that the declaration of martial law did not meet the requirements for sending disaster texts," adding, "We are checking the exact facts."

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team
AI Anchor: Y-GO
Caption editing: Jeong Eui-jin