<Anchor> At the time when

North Korea exploded the inter-Korean joint office during the day (16th), Minister Kim Un-cheol, the Ministry of Unification, was attending a standing meeting of the National Assembly. Immediately after the news of the bombing, he left the National Assembly and headed for the government building, but he did not answer any questions as to whether he had noticed any signs of abnormality in advance.

For more information, reporter Kim Min-jung will tell.

<Reporter>

Even after the bombing of the South-North Joint Contact Office at 3 pm today, the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Transportation Committee continued to receive questions and answers on the subject of the North Korean frontier.

However, after about 30 minutes, the atmosphere began to change.

The unification ministers who were present handed a note to Minister Kim Yeon-cheol.

[Lee Jae-jung/In addition, Democratic Party Democratic Party: Do you have any reports or reports on the situation?]

[Kim Yeon-cheol/Minister of Unification: Because it is a notice... (This is what happened during the situation here, so I think we should check the situation a little more accurate.)

Minister Kim left the conference hall at 3:53, about an hour after the explosion.

The question was asked to Minister Kim, who is leaving the National Assembly, asking whether the government had been aware of the signs of the explosion.

[Kim Yeon-cheol/Minister of Unification: (Are there any reports you received?) (You said before (at the Foreign Ministers' Meeting) that you were announced, but do you know?... .]

Minister Kim hastily returned to the office without a clear answer.

The political parties of the opposition parties also moved in a hurry.

Democrats held a FEMA after another as Lee Hae-chan representatives chaired,

[along ganghunsik / Democrat chief spokesperson: The grab such an act is not only a great threat to the inter-Korean relations will be impaired largest in Peace -

integrated sugar glucose foreign and security We convened the first special meeting.

[Bae Joon-young/Spokesman of the Future United Party: We have created security anxiety for ourselves. The current government's appeasement policy toward North Korea resulted in failure.]

In the midst of this, Song Young-gil, chairman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said, "I think North Korea was trying to show that it was not empty," and "Where did not detonate prisoners?" The.

Subsequently, Chairman Song posted a post on the SNS saying, "I can't tolerate the destruction of Korean property, whether it's blown up with a cannon or dynamite."

(Video coverage: Park Jin-ho, Ha Ryung, Video editing: Won-hee Hwan)

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