"There are no minutes of the State Council meeting".National Archives to begin inspection of the situation.

Cabinet meeting just before martial law was declared, the contents and remarks of the meeting were not prepared

Pre-Military State Council Discovered Many Procedural Defects

National Archives to check the status of records related to the declaration of emergency martial law

The speed of the prosecution's investigation into whether the State Council members were plotting martial law

[Anchor]
The National Archives of Korea has launched an investigation into the presidential office's response that there are no minutes of the Cabinet meeting to declare martial law.

Without the minutes of the meeting, there are concerns that it may be difficult for the members of the State Council to clarify whether they are for or against martial law, that is, whether they planned martial law in advance.

Reporter Kim Hyun-ah reports.

[Reporter]
Minutes of the cabinet meeting held just before martial law was declared on the 3rd were not prepared.

The legislator of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, who is in charge of preparing the minutes of the Cabinet meeting, was unable to attend the meeting at the time,
The office of the President
and the Ministry of National Defense also replied that there was no data recording the contents of the agenda or the summary of the participants' remarks.

There is a procedural defect in the Cabinet meeting to be deliberated before declaring martial law.

[Han Deok-soo / Prime Minister (11th): It is true that we gathered together, but it was not operated in the usual way of the Cabinet meeting, so whether it should be called a meeting of the members of the State Council or a formal Cabinet meeting....]


with no other emergency martial law records available or likely to be compromisedThrough the National Archives and the Presidential Archives, the
Administrative Security Department has begun to check the management status, including whether records related to the declaration of emergency martial law are preserved.

The inspection targets 15 organizations, including the Presidential Secretariat, the National Security Office, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the National Intelligence Service, the headquarters of the police and each military, the command, and Unit 3970.

The prosecution is also speeding up its investigation into whether martial law was plotted against those attending the Cabinet meeting, including summoning Minister of Health and Welfare Cho Kyu-hong.

However, if the minutes of the martial law-related Cabinet meeting as well as other materials are not left properly,
Some predict that it will not be easy to clarify what position the State Council members and military leaders expressed on martial law at the time of
and who premeditated it.

I'm Kim Hyunah of YTN.



Video editing: Lee Young-hoon
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