ROK General Testifies that He Believed Yoon Told Him to Drag Out Lawmakers During Martial Law Decree
It looks like the difference between Yoon getting impeached and possibly going to jail is two similar sounding Korean words:
A former military commander involved in President Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched martial law bid confirmed Thursday that the people Yoon ordered to be removed from the National Assembly were lawmakers, not agents, a claim that Yoon again rejected.
Lt. Gen. Kwak Jong-keun, the then chief of the Army Special Warfare Command, made the remark as a witness during the sixth formal hearing of Yoon’s impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court.
Yoon was also in attendance.
“I obviously thought and understood the part about dragging people out from inside as referring to lawmakers because there were no operation agents inside the main (parliamentary) building at the time,” Kwak said, referring to a phone call he received from Yoon on the night martial law was imposed on Dec. 3.
Kwak was confirming testimony he has previously given in parliament, as former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun has disputed the claim, saying Yoon had in fact ordered the removal of agents, not lawmakers.
In Korean, the words for agent and lawmaker are similar in pronunciation.
Yoon once again denied the claim — saying he has never used the term “agent” — and accused Kwak of plotting against him.
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Old news, GI.
But this is why followers of cults will always be the first ones to be thrown under the bus by their former leaders when those leaders are desperate to save themselves.