[정치]”The order is natural” versus “enlisted troops”… Debate over the amendment to the Security Act Enforcement Decree

[앵커]

Controversy arises as the Presidential Security Service seeks to amend related enforcement orders so it can command and supervise the military and police performing security duties in the security zone.

While the parties involved, the army and the police, made amendments or objections, the opposition parties even criticized what was a revival of the days of the military regime.

This is reporter Hwang Yun-tae.

[기자]

This is the ‘Amendment to the Presidential Security Act Enforcement Decree’ published by the Presidential Security Service on the 9th.

For efficient work, including giving authority to the head of the National Guard to command and supervise the army and the police, etc. that carry out security activities.

Although the condition of ‘if necessary’ was running, an argument immediately arose.

Criticism was raised which tried to make the army and the police the president’s ‘personal soldiers’.

[이수진 / 더불어민주당 원내대변인 (지난 17일) : 박정희 정권 시절 권력을 쥐고 흔들었던 차지철 경호실장의 부활입니까?]

In particular, the difference in terminology between the Presidential Security Act, the highest law, and the Enforcement Decree, the lower regulation, has fueled further struggle.

This is because the Presidential Security Act gave only the head of the National Security Agency the authority to request ‘cooperation’ from related agencies.

In a word, the parent law determines ‘cooperation’ in a horizontal sense, but it is said to be correct to include ‘command and supervision’, which is a vertical relationship, in the enforcement decree.

The parties, the army and the police, offered a similar logic.

The army proposed to change the terms of the enforcement decree, and the police indicated in a written opinion that it could violate the constitution because it is an authority that is not in the parent law.

[윤희근 / 경찰청장 (지난 16일) : 저희 쪽에 의견조회가 왔고 저희는 적절치 않다는 의견을 냈습니다.]

As the wave grew, the Presidential Security Service drew a line on the expanded interpretation, saying that command and supervision of the military and police was still maintained.

The ruling party also contributed.

[임병헌 / 국민의힘 의원 (어제) : (경호처장이) 파견된 군과 경찰에 대해서 지휘·감독을 해왔죠?]

[이종섭 / 국방부 장관 (어제) : 지휘를 해왔습니다.]

[임병헌 / 국민의힘 의원 (어제) : 명확하게 시행령으로 정하자는 뜻 아닙니까.]

However, aftershocks continue as the negative atmosphere of related organizations and the opposition focus on the historical experience of the military regime as a link leading to another claim of ‘judgment by the enforcement decree’.

This is Hwang Yun-tae from YTN.

YTN Hwang Yun-tae (kwonnk09@ytn.co.kr)

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