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Departing Ministry of National Defense spokesperson remarks “I hope security will not be shaken next time”

Bu Seung-chan, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense. yunhap newsOn the 12th, Ministry of National Defense spokesman Boo Seung-chan, who recently expressed his resignation, said, “I am sorry for the controversy surrounding the relocation of the president’s office and concerns about a security vacuum.”

This is an answer to a reporter’s question about the last briefing, and it is interpreted as a remark about the relocation of the president’s office to Yongsan.

Spokesperson Boo Seung-chan said, “I hate the word “security gap now” the most, but as long as our national defense exists, there has never been a security gap. I think I didn’t,” he said.

“I don’t think national defense has anything to do with political ideology,” said Vice Spokesperson.

Earlier, at a regular briefing at the end of last month, Deputy Spokesperson revealed personal regret by saying, “I will respond to the controversy over the relocation of the Oval Office by saying, ‘Security is like air’.”

Deputy Spokesperson is a retired Air Force major and has served as a policy adviser to the National Assembly and policy adviser to former Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo.

In December 2020, he was appointed as a spokesperson, a high-ranking public official with a special position. Prior to the appointment of the spokesperson, he also ran in the Democratic Party’s Jeju-eul constituency candidate competition and lost a landslide in the last 4.13 general election.