Overseas Network, October 23. According to Korean media reports, the US military in South Korea recently exposed a sex scandal. A US soldier was suspected of sexually assaulting a South Korean woman. The case was not detained by South Korean police and transferred to the US military police.
South Korea’s Money Today website reported on the 22nd that according to the allegations, at the end of September this year, the suspect sexually assaulted a South Korean woman she was dating in a hotel in Seoul.
A few days later, the victimized woman called the police.
Subsequently, the suspect, accompanied by a lawyer, went to the police station to be summoned for investigation.
The police did not detain him and filed a case and transferred him to the U.S. Military Police in accordance with the provisions of the "Status of Forces Agreement in South Korea."
According to the "Status of Forces Agreement in South Korea", only when the US military commits 12 vicious crimes such as murder, rape, drug trafficking, and assault to death, can the South Korean police continue to detain them without first handing them over to the US military.
South Korea’s "Busan Ilbo" once pointed out that it was this unequal agreement that made the South Korean police helpless against U.S. military violations.
The US military has repeatedly committed incidents of harassment and crime in South Korea.
In June of this year, after a video of a US military beating a South Korean man in Seoul was exposed, public opinion in South Korea was strongly dissatisfied. Protesters came to the US embassy in South Korea and demanded severe punishment for the violent US military.
The scene also simulated the arrest of a "criminal of the US military stationed in South Korea": a civilian wearing camouflage uniforms and masks played the role of a violent US military stationed in Korea, kneeling on the ground and being handcuffed.
(Overseas Network Liu Qiang)