Overview

• Lee held a phone conversation with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Kim Myung-soo at his Incheon residence to discuss recent North Korean military activity.
• The security briefing took place roughly two hours after Lee began his five-year term as commander-in-chief.
• He praised the armed forces for restraining from executing former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s December 3 martial law order, noting its role in preventing major unrest.
• Lee urged the military to maintain vigilance under the South Korea–U.S. combined defense posture.
• He stressed that safeguarding national security must go hand in hand with earning and retaining public trust.