<Kim Yong-hyun and Roh Sang-won discussed 'Pyongyang strike'>

<Kim Yong-hyun and Roh Sang-won discussed 'Pyongyang strike'>

1. On the 14th, he had a telephone interview with Roh Sang-won, former commander of intelligence, which is being revealed as a secret form of the emergency martial law. As the impeachment motion against Yoon Suk Yeol was passed at the plenary session of the National Assembly on the same day, all reporters were mobilized to produce live broadcasts and reports. On that day, the Democratic Party of Korea claimed that Roh is believed to have written a martial law decree and that an emergency arrest was needed. While discussing with Kim Tae-hoon, a defense reporter, what happened to Roh Sang-won, the former commander of intelligence, who started to come to the surface, I briefly missed the article to block the news coming in like a tsunami.

2. While I was looking at the article for a long time, I suddenly felt anxious that 'the investigation agency may soon secure the whereabouts of the senior citizen'. All the team members were in charge of their own work, so I was not in a situation where I could instruct someone to report. I called senior citizen directly, who had relatively little time. It was a phone call that I made without even expecting to receive it. However, he answered the phone right away as if he had been waiting and answered all the questions. The next day, on the 15th, I had an additional phone interview, and immediately after that, senior citizen was arrested immediately.

3. He seemed very nervous throughout the interview. Back then, there were no clear suspicions that he was a heavyweight in martial law, so he ended up asking questions to confirm various suspicions, but his answer was strangely long. While answering questions he didn't ask, he continued to say that he stopped Kim Yong-hyun, a former defense minister who is too strong. Roh denied the allegation that he was not even aware of martial law beforehand, but Kim quietly showed off his close friendship, saying that he listened to everything he said. He also admitted that he was deeply involved in the scandal and explained that an intelligence officer appeared at the election watchdog to prevent the server from being bombed. In fact, only a planner cannot easily explain such details.

4. In fact, I had no idea that former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun called Roh Sang-won. I asked him one question: "He calls with Secretary Kim Yong-hyun more often than not." He said, "Can you talk on the phone?" He admitted that he already told investigative agencies when being investigated as a reference. He explained that he only called through Telegram phone but answered Kim Yong-hyun's phone because he didn't do anything wrong. However, these remarks also acknowledge that they secretly call each other only through Telegram phone calls. When Kim suddenly answered a phone call on a regular cell phone during an urgent situation on the day, he said he couldn't deny it to investigative agencies, which are keeping records of phone calls. When I asked Noh if he called at dawn right after martial law, he admitted that he called Kim an hour later. Rep. Park Sun-won of the Democratic Party said, "Roh recommended Kim Yong-hyun to conduct additional operations through the second phone call."

5. During the interview, the most shocking thing was Roh's admission that he mentioned Kim Yong-hyun and his strike on Pyongyang. "Opposition parties said martial law was practiced before the impeachment of Minister Kim Yong-hyun. Is that correct?" Roh said at length, explaining that he warned that he could be impeached in such a situation. Then, what he suddenly said was the strike from the ground up of a filth balloon. He warned that shelling the ground up could cause a war by creating security concerns. He explained that if North Korea hits the ground up, it could lead to a war. This means that Roh admitted to mentioning the strike from Pyongyang while talking to Kim. Until recently, the JCS never officially mentioned striking from the ground up. Even in the military, he had never thought about shooting at Yeonpyeong or striking Pyongyang. It could mean that the two of them had already discussed in which case North Korea would launch a provocation.

6. The interview was deliberately postponed to air after Roh's allegations were fully revealed. It was a kind of strategic reserve, but I thought it would be better to disclose the truth of Roh, who appeared as a secret heavyweight in the emergency martial law. If the strike from the ground up was actually carried out as discussed by Roh and Kim Yong-hyun, North Korea's counteroffensive could have led to an unimaginable crisis. It was all the more shocking that the defense minister frequently talked to a civilian, Roh Sang-won, former commander of intelligence, on the phone to discuss such a huge issue. Perhaps we could have been lucky enough to have gotten over the most dangerous moment since the Korean War.

*Attached to the comments are the exclusive articles of reporters Kim Tae-hoon, Min Kyung-ho and Kim Soo-young on 8 News today.