Special Prosecutor Raids National Intelligence Service Over Alleged Consideration of Dispatching Personnel to Martial Law Command

Attempt to Secure Documents Such as "Martial Law Declaration Measures"
Working-Level Staff Responsible for Drafting Summoned for Investigation

National Intelligence Service. Photo by Kim Hyunmin

The special prosecutor's team investigating the insurrection has launched a compulsory investigation into allegations that the National Intelligence Service considered dispatching personnel to the Martial Law Command.

According to the legal community on September 18, the special prosecutor's team sent prosecutors and investigators to the National Intelligence Service headquarters in Naegok-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, and is currently executing a search and seizure warrant.

The special prosecutor's team reportedly began the search and seizure to obtain materials related to suspicions that the National Intelligence Service planned to dispatch more than 80 personnel to the Martial Law Command and the Joint Investigation Headquarters on the day martial law was declared, and attempted to form a Central Joint Intelligence Investigation Team.

Previously, Assemblyman Yoon Kunyoung of the Democratic Party of Korea raised suspicions that the National Intelligence Service produced documents on the day martial law was declared, which included plans to dispatch personnel. Assemblyman Yoon also claimed that the documents contained provisions to enact a temporary special law by presidential decree, enabling National Intelligence Service staff to conduct investigations, and asserted that this constituted "an explicit act of supporting martial law."

The special prosecutor's team reportedly summoned and questioned the working-level staff of the department responsible for producing the documents on the same day.

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