The 'real' reason for rejecting President Yoon's lawyers..."Because everything was broadcast live." [Y transcript]

■ Host: anchor Lee Se-na, anchor Na Kyung-chul
■ Starring: Professor Bang Seung-joo, Graduate School of Law at Hanyang University, lawyer Park Sung-bae

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◇Anchor> Although we appointed the most trusted lawyers, there is also news that it is very difficult to set up a defense team. So there must be some people who refuse. So, did the burden on too big an issue work? What do you think, professor?

◆Bang Seung-joo> Well, the burden was on because it was such a big event. So this itself declared an emergency martial law and tried to enter the National Assembly and seize servers by occupying the NEC. I think all of these things are unprecedented for the Constitution. The reason why I think it's an unprecedented constitutional incident is because before that, when soldiers endured a military coup, don't we call it a coup? It's already been 37 years since we've been democratized and we've been operating the 1987 Constitution. Many of the young people who are participating in the candlelight demonstration in front of Yeouido are people who have lived only in democracy. Those are people who don't really know what martial law is. However, attempts to fundamentally block martial law troops from entering the National Assembly and passing a resolution to lift the declaration of martial law by the National Assembly and all of these constitute, so to speak, civil war, riots by soldiers, and the maximum sentence for rebellion is life imprisonment, life imprisonment, and death penalty. So, when the emergency martial law was declared on December 3, wasn't all the events broadcasted on TV by the media? It was broadcasted, so to speak. So, it's not easy to deny these things on the respondent's side and the suspect's side. as the facts are already so obvious In this situation, it is not easy to set up a defense team. How and how to defend these things. Of course, those who have been in acquaintances with the president and have been related to work will try to help. They will also need their defense in order to unexpectedly defend the president's personal human rights violations in the course of the investigation by dividing the investigation and impeachment of their own. And the president is also now preparing to defend himself with that logic that this is the president's best form of governance, so lawyers in this impeachment trial are likely to prepare arguments in the same way.

◇Anchor> And at a briefing of the lawyers just now, President Yoon will express his position as he believes in the impeachment court, is President Yoon obligated to attend the trial?

◆Park Sung-bae> That's not true. In the case of an impeachment trial, of course, the parties are notified by designating a date. However, if you do not attend on that date, the Constitutional Court may designate the next date and proceed with the trial without attending on that date.

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: Lee Mi-young, editor of the digital news team

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