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In May 1980, there was no clear evidence of who was in charge of ordering the firing in Gwangju, and even 40 years ago. In time, the United States handed over confidential documents 40 years ago to Korea today (12th).

Reporter Hak-Hwi Kim has put together the key tasks of identifying the truth.

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① Head of the 'Focus on Order'

Those who have been in the process of identifying the facts of the May 18 Democratization Movement for 40 years gather that the key is to find out who is responsible for firing against the general public.

[Song Sun-Tae / 5 · 18 Chairman of the Investigation Committee on the Fact of Investigation: In May 18

, the prosecution will conduct an investigation to reveal to the public the background, police, and those responsible for the firing of martial law forces against citizens. I saw it as the person in charge and handed it over to the trial.

[Defendant Chun Doo-Hwan.]

However, the Supreme Court decided that there was no evidence that Mr. Chun Doo-Hwan tolerated murder against ordinary citizens.

The lack of evidence.

[President Chang-il Park / Member of the Ministry of National Defense's past picture identification committee (2007): Our committee tried to find the commander, but did not succeed in finding the commander.]

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addition to the size of the 'missing person' and 84 missing persons , 242 investigations of unrecognized missing persons and allegations of cancer burial should also be identified.

[CHOI Byeong-jin / 5 · 18 Democratization Movement Seoul President of the Seoul Commemorative Project: How did these people die, where are they buried now and where are they buried…? .]

③ Whether the new military's 'truth is distorted or manipulated' In addition, it

is a task to investigate the suspicion that the new military tried to distort and manipulate the truth in preparation for the 1988 National Assembly hearing.

It is also connected with uncovering the roots of the constant slogans and condemning them.

At some point in time, the US State Department also provided 43 secret documents related to the May 18th that were declassified.


Unlike the past, these are complete documents with some deletions.

The FSC plans to take over these documents soon and proceed with the investigation.

(Video coverage: Jae-young Lee, Video editing: No-young Oh, CG: Seung-hyeon Seo)

▶ 5 · 18 Jin- gyu-wi , full-scale activity… Promotion of 'Strengthening the right to investigate'