Dismissed provisional injunction to ban sales of Bu Seung-chan’s books over ‘suspicion of intervention in the official residence of Cheon-gong’
The government requested the court to ban the sale of the books of former Ministry of National Defense spokesman Bu Seung-chan (53), which is suspected of being intervened in the process of selecting the presidential residence, but it was not accepted토토사이트.
On the 22nd, the 21st Civil Settlement Division of the Seoul Western District Court (Chief Judge Lim Jeong-yeop) dismissed the government’s application for a provisional injunction against the publication and sale of books against CEO Mo Jo of H Publishing, who published “Power and Security-Moon Jae-in Government Defense Secrets and Suspicion of Perforation”. . The government argued that part of the book is a military secret under the Protection of Military Secrets Act, and if it is published or distributed, it threatens national security and threatens the loss of trust between South Korea and the United States, threatening national interests.
However, the court judged that even if the publication of the book constituted a leak of military secrets, there was no legal basis to prohibit the publication itself as a preliminary remedy rather than a claim for damages. Unlike intellectual property and copyright-related laws that stipulate prohibition and preventive measures against infringement of rights, the Military Secrets Protection Act does not stipulate prohibitive and preventive measures other than criminal punishment. Accordingly, the court rejected the application for provisional injunction without determining whether the contents of the book were classified as military secrets.
Former spokesman Bu wrote in a book that he heard from then Army Chief of Staff Nam Young-shin that during the process of selecting the presidential residence in April of last year, high-ranking officials in the presidential transition committee visited the office of the Army Chief of Staff and the Seoul Office of the Army within the Ministry of National Defense. Former spokesman Boo published this book on February 3rd, saying that it was based on his diary. On March 3, the Ministry of National Defense filed an application for a provisional injunction to prohibit publication and sale.Dismissed provisional injunction to ban sales of Bu Seung-chan’s books over ‘suspicion of intervention in the official residence of Cheon-gong’
