Prosecutor's Special Unit Conducts Search and Seizure at Special Warfare Command Involved in 'Emergency Martial Law Parliament Deployment'

Counterintelligence Command Raided Two Days in a Row

The prosecution investigating the 12·3 emergency martial law incident has launched a search and seizure operation targeting the Army Special Warfare Command and others.

General Kwak Jong-geun, Commander of the Army Special Warfare Command, is removing his mask while speaking during an emergency martial law-related inquiry at the National Assembly's National Defense Committee on the 10th. Photo by Kim Hyun-min

The Prosecution Emergency Martial Law Special Investigation Headquarters (Head: Park Se-hyun, Seoul High Prosecutors' Office Chief Prosecutor) is conducting a search and seizure at the Special Warfare Command located in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, on the morning of the 11th. They are also carrying out a second day of search and seizure at the Defense Counterintelligence Command in Gwacheon, which was raided the previous day.

The Special Warfare Command is the higher unit of the 707 Special Mission Group and the 1st Airborne Brigade, which were deployed to the National Assembly during the emergency martial law on the 3rd. They were involved in the operation to block the National Assembly to prevent the passage of the motion to lift martial law.

Kwack Jong-geun, Commander of the Special Warfare Command, appeared before the National Defense Committee of the National Assembly the previous day and stated, "The President personally called me on a secure phone," adding, "It seems the quorum for the resolution had not yet been met. I was ordered to quickly break down the door and pull out the personnel inside."

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