Personnel measures were taken yesterday (4th) for the 22nd Division swim defection incident that occurred on the 16th of last month.

It was 16 days after the incident, and 9 days after the findings were announced.

The division commander was dismissed.

The commander of the 8th Division, commanding the 22nd Division, was given a severe warning.

In addition, the brigade commander, battalion commander, and joint operation support commander were referred to the disciplinary committee, and the disposition of 18 soldiers, including one soldier, was delegated to the ground operations command.



When the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced the results of the investigation of the defection incident on the 23rd of last month, punishment with a cotton bat was expected as the result of the investigation of the defection incident was not released.

Thanks to this, the Commander of the 8th Corps was only warned, and the Ground Operations Command and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were relieved of responsibility.



The standard of punishment for this punishment has become more dull than the case of the North Korea incident in Ganghwa Province in July last year, when the commander of the military commander was dismissed from the position of Samcheok Moksun in June, and the commander of the Metropolitan Corps and the Marine Corps commander were simultaneously sternly warned.

The fairness of punishment was shaken.

I thought it would update the standards of censure as much as the announcement of personnel measures was delayed, but there were no other improvements.

Only the division commander was thrown as a victim, leaving behind an unbelievable scientific alert system that cried even in the passing wind.




● 1 camera false alarm 210,000 times...

“Punish me” A



defected North Korean man was caught 10 times by the 22nd Division's surveillance cameras.

The first eight were captured, but the guards didn't know, two of them were also beeping and warning signs.

Boundary failure.

However, before blaming the soldiers who failed to warn, it is necessary to take a calm look at our military's scientific alert system.



Upon investigation by the Army, a surveillance camera from the 22nd Division was found to sound 210,000 times a year.

It issued warning signals 575 times a day and 24 times an hour.

Almost all of them are actually false alarms caused by the wind.

Overall, it was found that one surveillance camera warns about 60,000 times per year and 7 times per hour.



Socho manages 9 such surveillance cameras.

This is a method of displaying the video transmitted by 9 cameras on a 9-segment monitor and watching the video surveillance officers on alert.

This means that the false alarm sounds 63 times an hour.

This is why Ha Tae-kyung, a member of the National Assembly's National Assembly, said, "The surveillance camera is a shepherd boy."




The name is Scientific Boundary System, which is truly unscientific.

The same goes for other units.

The vibration detection sensor did not work even during the so-called defection incident in November of last year, and the visual identification of the captured image was close to impossible even during the defection incident in Ganghwa-do in July last year.

Since its establishment in October 2016, there have been 5,225 failures in the entire system until October 2018.



In spite of these circumstances, the Ministry of National Defense seeks a polite dismissal if it breaks through.

It was confirmed that the 22nd Division commander clearly stated in various channels, "Anyway, the barbed wire is broken, so you must take responsibility", "Of course, the division commander is dismissal", and "Veterans should not be punished.

As the division commander, he declared himself a scapegoat, wrapped up his subordinates, and accepted the heavy measure of dismissal.



● Is the punishment fair? As



personnel measures were delayed, there was a lot

of chatter

inside and outside the military.

Suspicions have been raised that it is an attempt to pass by.

In response, a key official from the Ministry of Defense said, "You shouldn't be punished excessively because you don't use public opinion, but you shouldn't be a cotton bat."



However, yesterday's announcement ended happily with one dismissal as an example.

Since we have deprived one of the generals of the post, it is the same as before.

The consolation ended with the Legion General's warning, so in the light of other cases, he has the same personality as a cotton bat.

Ganghwa, which was too harsh, also raised the unfairness of military punishment as it prepared for the North Korean incident.

The Ministry of Defense failed to set a new standard for personnel action, so it lost the justification for dragging time.



The 22nd Division of the Army and the 2nd Division of the Marine Corps, which are in charge of the devil's borderline area, rely on an unscientific scientific alert system to endure day by day.

It will soon be broken and some will be dismissed.

Before you ask for responsibility, you must have the conditions to fulfill your responsibilities.

The Ministry of Defense hopes to rectify the scientific boundary system as soon as possible.