President Lee Jae-myung additionally accused of being a traitor in 'DMZ explosion incident'

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Seungyeon Lee = A civic group additionally accused President Lee Jae-myung of being a traitor in connection with the mine explosion incident in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

According to the legal community on the 7th, Min Kyung-kwon, head of the Korea Sovereignty Defense Headquarters, reported President Lee to the Serious Crimes Investigation Office (Central Investigation Office) for misdemeanor crimes under the Criminal Act.

The crime of banditry is a charge of joining forces with an enemy country and rebelling against the Republic of Korea.

On the 2nd, Representative Min accused President Lee and former Minister of National Defense Ahn Gyu-baek of general transfer.

The additional indictment submitted on this day included the addition of the crime of embezzlement to the peripheral charges against President Lee and former Minister Ahn, and the change of the previously reported general charges of embezzlement to preliminary charges.

In addition, current Minister of National Defense Kang Shin-cheol was also added to the list of defendants.

Representative Min explained, “As the Joint Chiefs of Staff finally confirmed the North Korean military’s intentional planting of land mines and the government’s response to this was further revealed, we submitted an additional complaint.”

It is known that our military identified changes in terrain, including mine rows, south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) in September last year. Recently, it was reported through political circles that a year ago, the Joint Chiefs of Staff identified the possibility that the North Korean military had laid landmines and reported this to the higher-ups.

Representative Min claimed that the defendants did not inform the public about this for a year and did not respond appropriately, "passing the risk to the military."