[Anchor]
The biggest concern of the Presidential Office today is whether President Yoon Suk Yeol will announce further positions.
Although the opposition party has raised the level of the offensive to the maximum, citing the resignation and impeachment, the presidential office is currently not considering public apologies.
Rather, it can be seen trying to break through head-on by focusing on explaining the legitimacy of the "declaration of martial law."
Let's go to the presidential office. Reporter Kang Min-kyung!
How is the atmosphere in the presidential office today?There is also a prospect that President
Yoon will announce his position today, right?
[Reporter]
It is difficult to confirm whether further discourse is made so far, but it seems unlikely.
Officials in the presidential office contacted by YTN this morning predicted that there is almost no possibility that President Yoon will make a position today.A high-level official
drew a line today that there will be no public apology or announcement of additional positions.
Another aide said, "We need to look at the progress of the situation to see if the president makes an interview or a statement," stressing that it is not desirable and should be sincere to make a statement only to prevent impeachment.
On the third day of the martial law scandal, the state of affairs is fluctuating. The president's office can be seen struggling to find the usual flow.
President Yoon Suk Yeol has suspended his original schedule today, but he will reportedly go to work normally in the presidential office.
High-level staff who have expressed their resignation are also working as originally planned, including in the morning meeting.
It is read as an attempt to calmly watch the current 'emergency situation' and consider future countermeasures.
[Anchor]
In the meantime, the reason why President Yoon declared martial law is being disclosed little by little through the ruling party?
In a way, it seems to be an unofficial explanation from the president's office, so please explain the related contents.
[Reporter]
Yes. The ruling camp officials contacted by YTN stress that Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law was a "warning."
It is explained that the situation in which the opposition party proposed impeachment again and criticized the government's budget was actually "paralyzed by state affairs."
The presidential office's position is that it has made an inevitable decision as a defender of the Constitution to normalize and restore state affairs.
They said the president's office did not control lawmakers' access to the National Assembly and immediately withdrew the military when the demand for the lifting of martial law was approved.
To sum up, President Yoon said, "How could he have done that?"
Judging from this atmosphere, the presidential office does not seem to consider measures such as "orderly resignation" or "haya" as the opposition demands.
It can also be interpreted that he chose to break through head-on, but there is a difference in temperature with the ruling party, especially its close circle, which even calls for the president's defection to prevent impeachment.
In fact, at a party-government-presidential meeting held in Yongsan yesterday, President Yoon reportedly made remarks to the effect that the declaration of emergency martial law was inevitably caused by the Democratic Party's tyranny, and that he did nothing wrong.
The president's office explained that there was no difference of opinion between the ruling party and the party at the Yongsan meeting, but the close circle immediately protested, saying there was definitely a difference.
For this reason, I think we should keep a close eye on the possibility of conflict between the presidential office and the ruling party leadership today.
I'm Kang Min-kyung of YTN in the presidential office in Yongsan.
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