"The disaster control tower is the National Security Office and the Presidential Secretariat"

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the early days of the Itaewon disaster, controversy arose over where the control tower for disaster response was located.

The answer was found in the presidential office documents obtained by SBS reporters, which stated that the National Security Office and the Presidential Secretary's Office were the control towers for national crisis management.

This is reporter Ahn Hee-jae on the sidewalk.

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Ten days after the disaster, the Steering Committee of the National Assembly.

Kim Dae-gi, chief of staff of the President, said this to the opposition party's point that the Presidential Office's State Affairs Office should also be held accountable for its insufficient response.

[Kim Dae-gi/Chief of the President's Secretary (8th of last month): The Control Tower is the Central Safety Countermeasure Headquarters, and the Government Situation Room is the President's staff organization.

It is not the disaster control tower of the Republic of Korea.]

Minister Lee Sang-min, who is the head of the Central Disaster Headquarters, was designated as the control tower, and Minister Lee also gave the same answer.

Over the disaster response control tower, the opposition party raised the presidential office responsibility theory, and SBS obtained the presidential office documents that served as the basis.

As a presidential directive 'Basic Guidelines for National Crisis Management', which was created during the Moon Jae-in administration and is still in effect, the National Security Office and the Presidential Secretariat are specified at the beginning of the guidelines as the 'control tower for national crisis management' that guarantees public safety.

In particular, it was decided that the head of the National Security Office and the Chief of the Presidential Secretary would establish an integrated crisis management system at the national level and assist the President in carrying out crisis management and state affairs in the event of a national crisis.

The document was rejected after civic groups requested the disclosure of information in order to examine the problems of the presidential office's response process after the disaster.

[Lee Hae-sik/Special Committee Member for Government Investigation (Democratic Party of Korea): Even now, the government and the president will stop the tail-cutting response to pass the responsibility down...

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The Office of the President said, "President Seok-yeol Yoon has consistently stated that the control tower for disaster safety is the president himself." It was explained that it was emphasized.