Yoon defends watching movie on day North Korea fired 'artillery shots'
President Yoon Suk-yeol and first lady Kim Keon-hee watch the Cannes award-winning film “Broker” at a movie theater in Seoul, June 12. Yonhap
President Yoon Suk-yeol said Monday that there was nothing wrong with him and first lady Kim Keon-hee watching a movie the previous day shortly after North Korea launched a series of projectiles because the government took the necessary steps in response.
Yoon and the first lady watched the Cannes award-winning film "Broker" at a movie theater in Seoul, Sunday. But some critics said it was inappropriate for the president to watch a movie at a time when the North had “fired shots” from a presumed multiple rocket launcher hours earlier
"There's nothing to be suspicious about," Yoon said as he arrived for work when a reporter suggested people could have questions about why the president went to see a movie.
"If a multiple rocket launcher was the equivalent of a missile, then we would take steps accordingly, but a multiple rocket launcher is not equivalent to a missile, so we took the steps that were needed," he said. (Yonhap)