President Yoon Seok-yeol answers questions and answers with reporters as he arrives at the presidential office in Yongsan, Seoul on the 21st. yunhap news
President Yoon Seok-yeol said on the 21st that, in relation to the incident in which North Korean defectors were sent back to North Korea under the Moon Jae-in administration on the 21st, “Once they enter the country, they are considered Korean citizens according to our constitution. said.
President Yoon said in a meeting with reporters on the way to the Yongsan Presidential Office on the way to work this morning, saying, “We’re still reviewing it, but haven’t the people raised a lot of issues since long ago?”
The North Korean defector repatriation incident occurred in November 2019, when two North Korean defectors expressed their intention to defect, but at the time, the Moon Jae-in government repatriated them to North Korea five days after they defected because they were accused of killing their colleagues.
President Yoon added, “I haven’t received a specific report yet,” but added, “I think we’re looking into it.”
Regarding the opposition to the ruling party that the Democratic Party of Korea could disclose special intelligence (SI) related to the ‘slaughter of a public official in the West Sea,’ he said, “I don’t think it is a simple matter to just disclose SI to the public.” “I think it is difficult to accept the claim itself to disclose it, but I will review it.”
Regarding the situation in which the low-income economy is becoming difficult, such as the prospect that the mortgage interest rate will soon reach 8% and household debt reaches 1,900 trillion won, “The Korean economic policy authorities said, “Since this is the phase of asset price adjustment in accordance with the global high-interest rate policy to catch high inflation, the Korean economic policy authorities “It is difficult to come up with a fundamental solution,” he said.
Regarding the issue of sending a request for a hearing to the National Assembly again for the Minister of the Interior and Safety Candidate Park Soon-ae and the Minister of Health and Welfare Kim Seung-hee, he said, “I will not do it today.” We decided to send it generously,” he said.
The NATO summit will be held in Madrid, Spain on the 29th of this month, and President Yoon is scheduled to depart early next week. As the National Assembly is not currently formed, the hearing schedule for candidates Park Soon-ae and Kim Seung-hee is also in a long-distance state.
Regarding the possibility of appointing Kim Seung-gyeom as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff without a personnel hearing, he said, “In the case of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it is difficult to wait for a long time.
When asked about innovation plans in relation to the recently announced public institution management evaluation, some institutions received failing points. “The government is not taking any special measures,” he said.
When asked if they would agree with the recommendation of the Police System Improvement Committee of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security to establish a new police station (tentative name) within the Ministry of Public Administration and Security to check the police power that had grown as a follow-up measure to the complete deprivation of the prosecution investigation, he said, “I did not see the recommendation.” Regarding the launch of the Nuri on that day, he said, “I plan to watch it through a video in Yongsan, and I will tell you my impressions after watching it.”
