<Anchor>
At the hearing on the candidate for defense minister Seo-wook, held today (16th) at the National Assembly, the opposition parties confronted the suspicion of preferential treatment of the son of Minister Choo Mi-ae.
At the beginning of the hearing, Democratic Party Rep. Hong Young-pyo aimed at members of the People's Powers and used the expression'coup forces', and the backlash also expressed regret.
This is reporter Minjung Kim.
<Reporter> It
was a personnel hearing for the defense minister, but the opposition parties started a nervous war on suspicion of the son of Justice Minister Chu Miae from the beginning.
Members of the People's Power aimed at Democratic Party Rep. Hwang-hee, who used the expression'single
criminal
' at the on-call soldier who raised the suspicion.
It is possible.] In the
Democratic Party, the term'coup forces' appeared.
[Hong Yeong-pyo/Democratic Party Member: The military was privatized, the military intervened in politics, and the forces that had been involved even caused a coup.
Those forces come to the National Assembly and work on it.]
The power of the people The hearing, which was heading to a crisis of claudication as lawmakers from the military revolted fiercely, resumed after 40 minutes after Congressman Hong Young-pyo expressed regret.
Members of the Power of the People criticized the defense minister candidate Seo-wook, saying that the 19-day sick leave of Minister Chu's son was a privilege.
[Ha Tae-kyung/National Power of Congressman: Texts are pouring out.
I had only 3 days of hospital records, so all of them were denied.
Why did Minister Chu's son have a hospital record on the 4th, but give him sick leave on the 19th?]
Candidate Seo
replied that the
judgment of the vacation period was "the area of the commander's discretion," and Democrats argued that there were many similar cases.
[Hwang-hee/Deocratic Democratic Party Member: Over 3,000 phone calls for extended vacation periods over four years, the military has changed into this situation where the commander and parents communicate with each other (regarding vacation, going out) and create a chat room.]
Candidate Seo said, "Based on the ROK-US alliance, we will speed up the transition to wartime operational control," and said "We must maintain" the Korea-Japan military information protection agreement'Gisomia'.
(Video coverage: Kim Hyun-sang, video editing: Won-hee Won)
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