文, No action even after receiving the first report … Three hours later, North Korea fired on our people.

President Moon Jae-in said on the 24th of the shooting of a South Korean official in North Korea: “We are very sorry for the shocking incident. “It is unacceptable for any reason.” However, there is mounting controversy over whether President Moon has responded adequately as commander-in-chief of the armed forces for two days since the night of the 22nd, when the Blue House was informed of the shooting of a public official. The Blue House said: “It took time to confirm and publish the report at the intelligence level.” However, opposition parties such as the people’s power demanded an apology and clarification, saying: “The president concealed the provocation from North Korea.”

President Moon received the first written report at 6:30 pm on the 22nd, when a public official disappeared. No shots were confirmed or damage to the body. However, if President Moon ordered the military to actively respond to North Korea from the start, it was time to prevent the situation from getting worse. The military reported the shooting and damage to the body at 10:30 pm on the 22nd, four hours later, to the Blue House. The Blue House did not disclose whether additional reports were reported to President Moon on the night of the 22nd. If President Moon did not direct the military or the National Intelligence Service to take action against North Korea even after receiving a report, he may controversy arise over a “passive response”. A government official said, “It was difficult to inform the president with intelligence-level information,” and that the president did not receive any reports of shooting on the night of the 22nd.

The Blue House said that President Moon received his first report in person only at 8:30 am on the 23rd. From the night of the 22nd until the first face-to-face report, an emergency meeting was held at the Blue House for one hour and media starting at 1 am on the 23rd, chaired by Seo Hoon, head of the Blue House National Security Office, attended by the head of the National Intelligence Service, the Minister of Unification and the Minister of National Defense . At the same time, from 1:26 am on the 23rd, for 16 minutes, President Moon’s online address to the United Nations, emphasizing the ‘End of the war’, unfolded as scheduled. There is a three-hour lag between the army’s shooting report to the Blue House and the UN speech. The Blue House said: “The UN speech was recorded on the 15th and sent to the UN on the 18th. Please do not link this incident with the president’s speech to the UN.”

President Moon received his first face-to-face briefing on the morning of the 23rd and said: “Find the exact facts and check them out with the North. If the intelligence turns out to be true, people will be angry, so let it be known. “However, even after President Moon received a face-to-face report, suspicions of procrastination and concealment have also been raised by the fact that people and the bereaved spent a day ‘blindly’ instructing to “check the facts” rather than an immediate announcement. Since inter-Korean relations are placed as a top priority, reports of insolvency by the military are also a problem, In addition to noting that it has caused controversy over passive responses, the Blue House responded, “Why the hell would you cover up?”

However, President Moon asked the military to serve as a ‘security badge’, saying, “The era of peace is not a straight path” in the military promotion report held at the Blue House on the morning of the 23rd. there was tension in President Moon’s comments directing the North Korean provocation and decisive response from the military. The army generals also said, “I will record the meaning of the president’s words that the Samjeonggum wields greater power within the pod.”

Even after receiving the final report from the military on the morning of the 24th, President Moon confirmed again: “Is the intelligence reliable?”, And the military replied that it was “highly reliable.” However, President Moon ordered the convening of the NSC standing committee chaired by the head of the security office instead of the presiding general meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) and ordered a public announcement. Two days after the shooting atrocities occurred.

For two days after the incident, President Moon ordered “to confirm the facts” instead of taking action towards North Korea and announcing to the public, the opposition raised the issue of concealment, saying: “It is very different from the way the President Park Geun-hye criticized the ‘Seven Hours of the Sewol Ferry’ “. . The Blue House said: “It was difficult to make an unreasonable announcement when the final facts were not confirmed and contact with North Korea was cut off.” The Blue House released the military report and President Moon’s instructions from the night of the 22nd until the morning of the 24th that afternoon alone.

A Blue House official condemned the North Korean provocation that day, but said: “Inter-Korean relations must continue and be maintained in the future.” It is interpreted as not changing the tone of the existing dialogue. President Moon also attended the New Deal Cultural Content Industry Strategic Briefing Meeting on the 24th as scheduled.

President Moon and the Blue House, who sought to resume inter-Korean and US-North Korean dialogues during the second anniversary of the Pyongyang summit and speeches to the United Nations, found themselves in perplexity due to provocation. of the North Korean shooting. A Blue House official said: “I am really worried that there will only be work left to make inter-Korean relations worse in the future.”