Yeo In-hyung, the previous chief of the Protection Counterintelligence Command, attends an pressing questionnaire on emergency martial regulation on the Nationwide Meeting Intelligence Committee, Dec. 7, 2024. Newsis
Dozens of troops had been deployed for the army’s alleged operation to ship 18 drones to North Korea over 11 events forward of former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched martial regulation bid in late 2024, a doc confirmed Thursday.
A complete of 59 troopers from the army’s front-line drone models had been mobilized for the operation carried out to impress the North and use it as a pretext for the short-lived martial regulation imposition, in line with an inside army doc offered by Rep. Choo Mi-ae of the ruling Democratic Social gathering of Korea.
Beneath the operation carried out between October and November 2024, only a month earlier than the martial regulation imposition in December the identical 12 months, the army allegedly despatched a complete of 18 drones carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into Pyongyang and different main North Korean cities over 11 events.
Particulars of the operation remained confidential solely amongst a small variety of related senior officers and weren’t shared with the army’s front-line models in addition to the US or the U.S.-led United Nations Command, which administers the armistice.
“(The transfer) may have led to North Korea’s assaults … with the chance of inflicting grave harm,” the protection ministry’s disciplinary committee assessed, noting that the very fact it was not shared with front-line models may have blocked them from promptly responding within the occasion of a North Korean provocation.
Primarily based on the findings, the committee reportedly faraway from workplace Yeo In-hyung, the previous chief of the Protection Counterintelligence Command, in late December on prices of aiding the enemy by colluding with former President Yoon and former Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun.
Yoon and the 2 others have been indicted on prices of aiding the enemy in reference to the alleged drone dispatch.
