Military expert lambasts plan to relocate Blue House to Defense Ministry as "outrageous"

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Mar.18,2022 17:07 KST
Hankyoreh

According to Kim, the Yoon camp is telling the Ministry of Defense to empty their main building and move into the Joint Chiefs of Staff building next door. Although it would be theoretically possible for the defense minister himself to move there, “the policy departments of the ministry will reportedly be moved to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration building in Gwacheon,” Kim said, pointing out how Yoon’s plan would scatter these different departments around in different locations.

“The Ministry of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff are optimized as the last bastion and center of national security in case of an emergency,” Kim commented. “For example, if North Korea detonates a nuclear weapon in the air 60 kilometers above Seoul, it becomes an electromagnetic pulse — almost 100 billion won was spent on the construction of this defense facility alone [to defend it from such attacks]. And they want to send it all packing?” Kim asked.

“The Blue House crisis management center also spent a lot of money to build a system to manage terrorist situations, natural disasters, and national security situations, all of which are [now] useless,” Kim added.

Nevertheless, the Yoon camp still believes the move is a good idea.

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Does the president elect Yoon Seok-yeol want to move into the MND building because he's a wanna be dictator or because his shaman told him the feng-shui of the old Japanese colonial outpost is favorable to his rule? His wife said she wouldn't live in the Blue House. This preliminary annoucement is another example of his absolute incompetence as a leader. The communities of Yongsan and Gwacheon are opposed to the plan. They voted for him.

This is one of many surprises to come. Yoon told the present prosecutor general to resign. Yoon plans on investigating the current president Moon Jae-in, for what he did not say. Don't worry he'll make something up. Rumors are that he will nominate Na Kyung-won for Foreign Minister. Na's husband allegedly diverted criminal litigation against Yoon's mother in law and wife in the past. Yoon's last minute supporter from the National Party, Ahn Chul-soo, had said just a few weeks ago, that anyone who voted for Yoon would cut off the finger that pushed the button on the ballot for Yoon in less than a year. Will it take that long? Hong Jun-pyo a former presidential candidate said the building where the first family and blue house national command authority reside isn't the problem, it's the personnel.

The estimated tax cost of moving the Blue House staff is approximately a billion dollars. That doesn't include the adverse impact on commerce in the affected communities.