Twenty-three people, including military generals who were implicated in the Dec. 3 emergency martial law and received heavy disciplinary action, filed appeals with the Ministry of National Defense.
According to the Ministry of National Defense and others on the 8th, as of the 3rd, 23 of the 31 military officers who received heavy disciplinary action in connection with the martial law appealed the disciplinary committee's decision.
Former Defense Counterintelligence Command chief Yeo In-hyung, former Capital Defense Command chief Lee Jin-woo, and former Defense Intelligence Command chief Moon Sang-ho, who are on trial on charges of engaging in important duties during an insurrection, all appealed the dismissal decisions.
Former Army Headquarters deputy chief of staff Ko Hyun-seok, who was involved in organizing or boarding the so-called "martial law buses," former the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) readiness inspection deputy director Lee Jae-sik, who was involved in forming and operating the Martial Law Command, and former Defense Intelligence Command plans director Ko Dong-hee, who is suspected of taking part in a plan to blockade the National Election Commission on the day martial law was declared, were also listed among those who appealed. They, too, all received dismissal decisions.
Of the remaining eight who did not appeal, seven had not decided whether to appeal as of the 3rd, and only former Special Warfare Command chief Gwak Jong-geun gave up an appeal. Consideration of his testimony in former President Yoon Suk-yeol's trial led to his removal from office rather than dismissal.
The review schedule for the 23 who appealed has not yet been set.