▲ The commissioners are looking around the heliport of the US military base near the Ministry of National Defense yesterday.


Yesterday (18th), the Presidential Transition Committee visited the Ministry of National Defense in Samgakji, Yongsan-gu, Seoul to review a candidate site for the Blue House relocation.

This is the first time the transition committee members visited the Ministry of National Defense while the transition committee is strongly considering relocating the Blue House office building.

I took the first step only now, saying that I would finish the national ambassador to the Blue House before the spring blooms.



In fact, for a job of this size, it must be planned after more than a year of deliberation, contemplation, and fierce debate.

It is normal that it will take several years before construction and before.

But the reality is that the first due diligence yesterday was all that the people of the transition committee discussed for just a few days.

Kim Jong-dae, a former member of the Justice Party, who is a military expert, deserved criticism, saying, "Even dog houses do not break like this."



The result of the unprepared Blue House relocation is the three divisions of the Ministry of National Defense, the Blue House-Ministry of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Ministry of Defense cohabitation.

The presidential office, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of some countries each have their own building, but before the spring blooms, it seems that our national dignity will be the Ministry of National Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Presidential Office, which share the office building.


Acquisition committee members who visited for the first time yesterday



The commissioners who went on a field trip yesterday had a hard time crossing the threshold of the Ministry of National Defense.

Some residents of Yongsan-gu blocked the bus and held a "opposition to the Blue House relocation" protest.

After persuading the members with difficulty, I was able to enter the Ministry of National Defense in about 20 minutes.



As the commissioners looked around the territory of the Ministry of National Defense, officials and soldiers of the Ministry of National Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were watching, threw words one by one.

"I'm not sure if the Ministry of National Defense is a good fit for the Blue House, too, since I've been staying here longer than at home, but they look around for a couple of hours and give an estimate." I can't use

a single won, so I don't know how to transfer it."



During the field trip, Vice Chairman Kwon Young-se of the transition committee asked the Ministry of National Defense about obstacles to relocating the presidential office.

An official from the Ministry of National Defense said, "The homework is to find an available space to relocate, but in the end, if you use a building that you haven't used now, there are concerns about inconvenience and delays in work." can do it," he said.



The takeover committee has only now grasped the situation to this extent.

The Blue House's plan to relocate the Ministry of National Defense is in fact a blank slate.

There is only the idea of ​​moving to the Ministry of National Defense, but there is no roadmap.

An officer at the Ministry of National Defense’s facilities headquarters in charge of relocating military units said, “I did not know that the Blue House relocation could be done like this.”


The rush of improvised ideas


The relocation of the Blue House to the Ministry of National Defense is not a promise made by the elected president.

After the presidential election, an idea is improvised and promoted in haste.

How did the idea of ​​the 'Blue House Yongsan Era' come about?



The Blue House's plan to relocate the Ministry of National Defense appeared after the 9th, the day of the presidential election.

A key figure is Kim Yong-hyeon, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who served as a chairperson for reservists at the opposition presidential campaign, senior defense officials agree.

He is one year senior at Chungam High School of the elected candidate.

It is known that he heard from somewhere, "Why don't you move to the Ministry of National Defense instead of Gwanghwamun, where security and cost problems are big?"

Jirashi is also circulating, which contains specific circumstances in which former general manager Kim Yong-hyun obtained the idea of ​​relocating the Oval Office to the Ministry of National Defense and using it.



An impromptu idea became the No. 1 business of the acquisition committee.

If so, I had to study it more closely and come up with a plan, but I pushed through without such a process.

It is not unreasonable for the military and public officials of the Ministry of National Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who will soon be under the command of the new government's Blue House, humiliate the transition team from behind.


The three divisions of the Ministry of National Defense and the Blue House, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff


When the Yongsan period begins, the Ministry of National Defense will be divided into three parts.

Currently, the Minister's Office, Vice Minister's Office, Defense Policy Office, Planning Coordination Office, etc. go to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Key military departments, such as operations and forces, and North Korea policy, will be moved to the old building of the Ministry of National Defense.

The support department will remain in the present office building.

There are separate brains such as the Deputy Minister's Office and the Policy Office, and separate core military departments.



The Blue House lives with the Ministry of National Defense.

Also, the Joint Chiefs of Staff live with the Ministry of National Defense.

The Blue House, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff all share a common office building without a single office building.

It can be argued that it is pragmatism rather than national pride, but security inefficiency and security flaws are too great to be pragmatic.



The Department of Defense's internal network is cut off.

Because it is difficult to use an external network for hacking threats, the three divisions of the Ministry of National Defense are inevitably isolated from each other.

There is no normal country that operates the Ministry of National Defense in this way.

If the Blue House National Crisis Management Center and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are combined, the possibility of the Blue House interfering with the military's operations increases.

Even so, there is a lot of talk that Kim Yong-hyeon, the former head of the operation division, who is leading the relocation to Yongsan, will take over as the next chief of the bodyguard, but there are many soldiers who are worried that the chief of the bodyguard will act as the 'king of the defense'.



It is difficult to even count with two hands the security problems caused by the Blue House-Ministry of Defense-JCS cohabitation and the division of the Ministry of National Defense into three parts.

A high-ranking Ministry of National Defense official said, "They say it will cost 50 billion won before the Blue House Yongsan, but that's a short-term cost.

A senior JCS official said, "I don't know what former Chief of Operations Kim Yong-hyeon was thinking about pushing the move to Yongsan."