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Joint Chief of Operations Park Jung-hwan is reporting the situation of the 22nd Division defectors at the general meeting of the National Assembly Defense Committee on the afternoon of the 17th.[사진 출처 = 연합뉴스]A North Korean man who traveled to the coast near the Unification Observation Deck in Goseong, Gangwon-do was captured 10 times by a surveillance camera (CCTV) at the time of his departure, but the military missed it eight times.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on the 23rd, on the 16th, how the North Korean men who had secured recruits from the north of the East Sea Civil Control Line to Vietnam.
According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korean men climbed to the shore near the Unification Observation Deck at around 1:05 am on the 16th and moved south along the shore in front of the coastal iron fence. As a result of the inspection team checking the unit’s coastal CCTV, the man was detected 5 times on four CCTVs from 1:5 am to 38 am, and the alarm sound (alarm) sounded twice on the monitoring room monitor. Nevertheless, the control room watchdog missed this, and proper action was not taken by the unit.
The inspection team also checked CCTV in another place along the route the North Korean man traveled. As a result, between 4:12 and 14 am, a North Korean man was detected three times on the fence guard CCTV at the Navy Joint Operations Support Center.
In summary, a total of 10 North Korean men were detected by CCTV, and the military identified and communicated the situation when they were detected for the 9th and 10th time.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “In order to confirm the drainage drainage that is believed to have passed by unknown personnel (North Korean male), we identified three drainage ditches that are not on the unit management list between the coastal search.” It is estimated that it was in a state.”
The Joint Chiefs of Staff also said, “After first identifying a North Korean man on Road 7 north of Jejin Socho, the 22nd and 8th Corps responded with ease, despite the severe situation, and inadequate execution of operations, such as not complying with the situational action manual. I did,” he concluded.
As a follow-up measure, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “We will hold an operation commander meeting led by Joint Chiefs of Staff Won In-cheol to establish the operational discipline of the commander of the entire unit and the personnel performing the alert operation.”
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