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also accusations that our military and our government failed to protect the people over this incident.

After confirming that Mr. Lee was found on a North Korean ship, there were six hours before he was killed. What did our military do at that time?

Yesterday (24th) the National Assembly also criticized the military for not taking any action while looking far away.



This is Kim Tae-hoon, a reporter specializing in defense.



<Reporter> On the



22nd, at around 3:30 pm, the military captured the situation in which Mr. Lee was found on a ship at a North Korean fisheries office at around 3:30 pm, as a surveillance information asset.



Soon after, a North Korean military crackdown boat was put in, and Mr. Lee was killed at around 9:40 PM, six hours after our military captured it.



The inhumane situation continued for six hours in which North Korean ships did not rescue the exhausted Korean people from the sea, but our military and the government did nothing to North Korea.



The military communication line, Panmunjom UNC channel, could have requested repatriation from the North, but they didn't.



[Shin Won-sik/People's Strength Congressman: It is not necessary to report distress and provide humanitarian rescue support.

What did you looked at for 7 hours.



[Seouk / Defense Minister: CONSEQUENTIAL, as is so dwaetjiman where the structure be so repatriated to deunga were thought to tread this procedure.



If another times as well as the aircraft NLL March goodwill of people It was confirmed that there was no specific manual to stop and attempt to repatriate.



The military emphasized that all responsibility lies in North Korea, saying that if they knew it would kill, they would not have been still.



[Ahn Young-ho/Head of Joint Operations Headquarters: We are seriously warned that North Korea is responsible for all the atrocities committed against our people.]



Although North Korea is not only responsible for inhumane actions, it is necessary to look back on whether the military has fulfilled its responsibility to protect the people. There is.