The Ministry of National Defense announced on the 9th that legally the military commander-in-chief belongs to President Yoon Seok-yeol.
Jeon Ha-gyu, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, answered the question, ‘Who has the right to command the Armed forces now?’ at a regular briefing this morning. In response to an additional question,”Can a suspected insurrection leader take command of the armed forces?” he simply answered,”Are you asking for judgment?” and “Legally,the current commander-in-chief (President Yoon) has the authority.”
Commander-in-chief of the military is the president’s inherent authority under the Constitution. However,concerns arose about President Yoon’s exercise of military commander-in-chief,who ordered martial law. In addition, after President Yoon announced that he would withdraw from a second term, saying, “I will leave the future political stability plan, including the term of office, to our party,” questions continued as to whether the ruling party had even relinquished military commander-in-chief by mentioning “exclusion from office.”
Previously, Han Dong-hoon, CEO of the People Power Party, met with reporters on his way home from work the afternoon before and was asked, ‘Does the scope of the president’s exclusion from duties include military commander-in-chief?’ “I think it is the same.” He answered, “It includes diplomacy (and falls within the scope of job exclusion).” This contradicts the response of the Ministry of National Defense.Representative Han could not answer the question, ‘Who represents military commander-in-chief?’
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Kim Ye-seul, Donga.com reporter seul56@donga.com