President Lee Claims the ROK Army Could Mount a Coup Against Him in Attempt to Close Military Academy
I doubt anyone in the media will call out President Lee on this claim, but the only reason he is in office is because the ROK Army would not comply with former President Yoon’s martial law attempt. If the Army had sided with Yoon, Lee would probably be in jail right now. So it seems pretty disingenuous of him to attack the Army leadership now in his attempt to justify combining the military academies:
President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday the Army academy has been behind all military coups in South Korea, while remaining largely unaccountable, calling for the swift integration of military academies to reduce the risk of another coup.
The president made the remarks while receiving policy briefings from the foreign, unification and defense ministries, as the government seeks to unify the academies of the Army, Navy and Air Force into a single institution.
Lee pointed out that graduates from the Korea Military Academy had been behind all of the country’s military coups, but that the academy had not been held to account so far.
The president, in particular, noted the risk of another coup by Army elites, saying, “Can’t they do it again in the future?”
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He seems spectacularly unwell (physically and mentally).