Kwon Chang-young's second comprehensive special counsel team requested arrest warrants for former Chair Kim Myung-soo of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and others on suspicion of participating in insurrection during the martial law period.
The comprehensive special counsel said on the 9th that it requested arrest warrants for former JCS Chair Kim Myung-soo, former JCS Vice Chair Jeong Jin-pal, former Army Headquarters Policy Director Kim Heung-jun, and former JCS Readiness Posture Inspection Deputy Director Lee Jae-sik on charges of engaging in important duties related to insurrection.
They are suspected of being involved in martial law on Dec. 3, 2024, after watching the situation in which the military was being deployed to the National Assembly and elsewhere without stopping it.
Although former Chair Kim held operational command authority (military command authority), he is accused of not recommending to Minister Kim Yong-hyun of the Ministry of National Defense at the time that troops be withdrawn, even after receiving opinions to the effect that there were procedural problems with the martial law and that deploying the military to the National Assembly could be unlawful.
The comprehensive special counsel also viewed as evidence of involvement in martial law the fact that former Chair Kim issued fragmentary orders to the Special Warfare Command and the Capital Defense Command to the effect of "prioritize martial law duties."
A suspect interrogation before arrest (substantive warrant review) for former Chair Kim and others is expected to be held as early as the latter part of this week.