It has been confirmed that the special investigation team visiting the Korea Military Intelligence Command, which is under suspicion of colluding with North Korea prior to the Dec. 3 martial law, conducted an investigation.
According to the legal community on the 27th, the special investigation team visited the Intelligence Command located in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, on the 25th and conducted field investigations.
The special investigation team is particularly focusing on the relation between the martial law and an incident in which two Intelligence Command agents were captured by Mongolian intelligence while attempting to contact Mongolian officials to infiltrate the North Korean Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, last November.
There are also allegations that former Intelligence Commander Moon Sang-ho asked for support for the declaration of martial law during a business trip to Taiwan just before the announcement of the martial law.
The special investigation team has reportedly investigated senior officers belonging to the Joint Chiefs of Staff as witnesses in connection with the recent drone infiltration operation in Pyongyang.
It has been identified that the special investigation team summoned and investigated Jeong Kwang-ung, former director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Operations Planning Department, and Jeong Sang-jin, director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Joint Operations Division, who worked under Lee Seung-o, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's chief of operations, between October and November last year.
If the special investigation team finds that they contacted North Korea with the aim of provoking a North Korean military provocation that would justify the declaration of martial law, it is understood that this could correspond to the criteria of 'collusion with a foreign country' stipulated in foreign exchange crimes.
By  Kim Bo-yeon

Published Date:2025-07-28