When the emergency decree was declared...Gunmen enter Yanggu Military Office

ⓒYonhap News Agency

At the time of the Dec. 3 emergency martial law declaration and lifting, it was confirmed that soldiers with guns entered the Yanggu County Office near the border of Gangwon-do.

According to the video data released by the Democratic Party of Korea's Heo Young's office on the 23rd, a soldier with a rifle that appeared to be K-2 entered the lobby of the county office at around 0:56 a.m. on the 4th when the emergency martial law was imposed. Around the same time, military police carrying rifles believed to be K-1 entered the closed-circuit (CC) TV control center of the military office and talked with employees.

This is a video that directly refutes the explanation by an official of the military office and the Army's 3rd Corps on the 5th that "at that time, the soldiers were unarmed without rifles and other items."

In this regard, a corps official explained, "It is true that some people have guns," adding, "However, I understand that they do not have live ammunition."

Yanggu County said in a statement on the county office's website, "When a related department official visited the military-police joint situation room on the 4th, he saw the soldiers did not carry firearms, so he recognized it as unarmed," adding, "We recently learned that two out of seven soldiers carried firearms while checking CCTV related to soldiers' entry at the National Assembly."

"Although the contents related to the carrying of guns by soldiers entering the county office have become an issue through the media, there was nothing that could enter by force or threaten the safety of employees and county residents," he stressed.The

County Council is scheduled to hold its fifth plenary session from 10 a.m. on the 24th and conduct questions about lawmakers in this regard.