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To address this situation, today's (25th) Blue House, the government, and the ruling party gathered for an emergency meeting. After the meeting, a senior spokesman from the ruling party said he would implement a maximum containment policy in Daegu and Qingdao. Then the controversy grew over whether or not the blockade would isolate the region, and President Moon Jae-in had to step up and explain that it was not a regional blockade.

This is reporter Park Ha-jeong.

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Instead of the closed National Assembly, the DPRK headed under the phrase 'Let's overcome together' at the Yeouido Democratic Party in Seoul.

After a two-hour meeting, the Democratic Party spokesman Hong Ik-Pyo spoke of the "blockade policy" in question.

[Hong Ik Pyo / Deputy Democratic Party chief spokesman: In particular, the Daegu and Gyeongbuk Qingdao areas were designated as special control areas for infectious diseases and implemented the maximum containment policy beyond normal blocking measures. ]

'Containment', that's what you mean by blocking or locking. So what did that mean?

[Hong-Pyo Hong / Deputy Democratic Party chief spokesman: We are considering moving as much as possible or utilizing administrative power to some extent.]

It was interpreted as a regional blockage and restrictions on residents' movements, and articles were poured out.

The controversy over whether the Daegu Gyeongbuk blockade will be isolated in real-time search terms will isolate the region like China's blockade in Wuhan.

[Kwon Young-jin / Daegu Market: Blockade policy? I haven't heard anything at all.]

Rather than blocking the area, the term was used by experts in defense, meaning that the defense network was tighter, preventing further spread.

[Hong Ik Pyo / chief spokesman for the Democratic Party: It does not mean to block the region.]

I had to get to the president.

[President Moon Jae-in: It makes clear that it means 'to cut off spread and spread as much as possible'. I think there was a misunderstanding and I would like to explain again.]

Democrat Kim Bu-gyeom, who has Daegu as a regional district, criticized the nation for its unscrupulous behavior, saying it had another dagger in its hearts.

The confusion was aggravated by the thoughtless briefing of the Democratic Party's chief spokesman, Hong Ik-pyo.

(Video coverage: Park Jin-ho, Ha Rong, Park Seung-won, Video editor: Chae Chul-ho)