▲ Defense Minister Seo-wook attending the National Assembly Defense Committee and explaining the swimming defection incident
The 22nd Army Division experienced a failure to guard against the swim defection incident on the 16th.
The defector was photographed eight times by the surveillance equipment, and two of them had a warning sound and a warning signal, but the 22nd Division soldiers ignored it, so there is nothing to say with even ten mouths.
The appearance of a defector on the beach captured by surveillance equipment is suspicious to anyone, and the military is embarrassed.
The drainage channel that became the defection passage is more difficult as it is a facility that the 22nd Division did not know at all.
The National Assembly's Defense Committee said that the 22nd Division's murderous boundaries should be taken into account, which relieved the burden of the military.
Some members of the National Defense Agency have even ruled out, "You should not discipline soldiers."
Prior to this, the generals paid a lot of attention to the National Assembly.
It was also revealed that the 22nd Division commander directly called the influential member of the National Defense Commission.
It may be because the sum of the military and the National Assembly fits well, but when the joint chiefs announced the results of the investigation, disciplinary action was omitted.
Until now, it has been customary to announce the results of the investigation and at the same time disclose the subject and level of disciplinary action, but not this time.
Of course, punishment is not the case.
However, penalties must be enforced fairly and fairly.
Big things should be disciplined and small things should be lightly blamed.
Even more so in the military where the spirit of abstraction must stand.
This is because the disposition of the 22nd Division's swim defection incident in July last year, when he dismissed the division commander and sternly warned a commander who had no responsibility or authority in the warfare operation, was so different.
The presence of the Ministry of National Defense, which is commanding the military on behalf of the civilians, is blurred.
Only one minister has changed, but I am worried that the strictness and fairness of the Ministry of Defense are shaken.
The appearance of high-ranking generals visiting the National Assembly and making phone calls reveals signs of military discipline, making the Ministry of Defense helplessness even more pronounced.
● Reconsideration of Ganghwa-do Yeonmi-jeong North Korea In the
early morning of July 18 last year, North Korean defector Kim Mo crossed the Han River and
fled to North Korea
through a drainage channel under the iron fence right next to Yeonmi-jeong, Ganghwa-do.
As a result of the joint investigation, Kim was spotted seven times by military surveillance equipment during about 75 minutes of swimming across North Korea.
Soldiers of the Marine Corps 2nd Division did not notice even by looking at the surveillance monitor.
Boundary failure was stigmatized.
In fact, it was all estimated that it was the result of the joint investigation.
It is known that North Korean defector Kim passed through the soil of a drainage ditch, but there was no trace of human passage there.
The video evidence, which could be called a smoking gun, was also faint.
An official of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "The video equipment analysis officer of the Armed Forces Command and Communications Command looked for the North Korean scene after repeatedly rotating the filmings for a specific time zone and a specific area for several hours."
Even the best video reading experts in the county firmly believed that it was the video of Mr. Kim visiting North Korea, and after turning the video several times with the light on, they found a long and private video.
What would you say to the Marine Corps 2nd Division soldiers who were keen on working on the North Korean border while staring at objects coming from north to south?
The video was also released to reporters in the press room of the Ministry of Defense, but there was no way to tell what Mr. Kim was.
Besides, the Han River Estuary is a water bird paradise.
Due to the scarcity of people, all kinds of water birds such as cormorants fly and live in uninhabited islands.
Waterfowl's body temperature is similar to that of humans, but after sunset, if a person swims with only his head, it cannot be distinguished from waterfowl.
Still, since the opening cannot be reversed, the 2nd Division commander was dismissed.
The Marine Corps 2nd Division is commanded by the Capital Corps and Ground Operations Command, not the Marine Corps Command.
The commander of the capital corps and the commander of ground operations were to be disciplined, but the commander of the Marine Corps along with the commander of the capital corps was sternly warned.
Marine Corps commanders without command responsibility and authority were disciplined solely for being a Marine.
● Army 22nd Division and Marine Corps 2nd Division
At the National Assembly National Defense Council plenary meeting on the 23rd, Democratic Party member Kim Byung-ki said, "The 22nd Division's border responsibility area reaches 100km, including 30km on land and 70km off the coast," and "The boundary area is 4-5 than other divisions. "It's twice as wide," he said, "we have to solve the underlying problem."
Commissioner Ha Tae-gyeong, the power of the people, said, "There are too many false alarms in the surveillance equipment" and "You should not punish the soldiers who watched the monitoring equipment."
It is true that the 22nd Division's border responsibility area is wide.
However, it is incomparable to the Marine Corps 2nd Division.
The 22nd Division also has a few thousand more troops than the 2nd Marine Division.
Even if the 22nd Division suffers much more than the other divisions in the Army, it is much easier than the 2nd Marine Division.
Nevertheless, the Marines endured dismissal of their position as division commander and severe warning of their commander for failing to capture the faintness of the monitor, which even experts struggle to identify.
It is also true that there are many malfunctions of surveillance equipment.
However, this cannot be a reason for disciplinary reduction or exemption.
It is the responsibility of the commanders to have timely repairs if the surveillance equipment malfunctions.
If it has malfunctioned so much, it is normal if measures have already been taken.
It is not correct to say that soldiers should not be disciplined because they are malfunctioning.
There is no disciplinary action for the soldiers, but commanders who stand by for a malfunction cannot be free from reproach.
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On the morning of the morning of the 23rd, when the
active duty of the National Assembly operation and the Ministry of
National Defense's'decision
obstacle'
was held, the generals of the joint member were put into the room of members of the National Assembly's National Defense Council.
We organized a timetable every few tens of minutes, and systematically met with the defense commissioners and held a clarification war.
They even attacked the aides.
It was reminiscent of a military operation.
It was confirmed that the 22nd Division commander called directly to a leading member of the ruling party belonging to the National Defense Commission.
The 22nd Division Head is a former National Assembly cooperator.
I am close to the members of the National Assembly.
At times like this, the more reflective and self-respectful it was, but the active-duty general in the field carried on his past career in political activities.
Weighted penalties should be considered.
Once again, punishment is not very good, but punishment should be fair.
Last summer, the Ministry of Defense punished the Marines to the point that they were stubborn.
In February of this year, the Ministry of Defense has yet to decide whether or not to punish the return of the 22nd Division's swim, which is considerably more serious than the Marine Corps' 2nd Division swim over North Korea.
No matter how much the generals use my dragons, the Ministry of National Defense, which is the absolute institution of civil control, is hesitant to organize them if they take part with them.
It is the same Ministry of Defense of the Moon Jae-in administration, but last year and this year are very different because the minister has changed.
I can't see the power of determination.
There is another behavior that is deterministic by the Department of Defense.
Commissioner Kang Eun-ho, the head of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, who executes tens of trillions of dollars annually, and demands high level of discipline and integrity in public office.
Director Bang Bang's very inappropriate behavior and the state of the Ministry of Defense hesitating in front of him will be described in the following report file.
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