Lee Jae Myung
Role at the time: President of South Korea, speaking at a Cabinet meeting at the Blue House
Statement summary
At a Cabinet meeting on September 29, 2026, the day after the Joint Chiefs' preliminary findings, President Lee Jae Myung told the military to work closely with the UN Command on a swift and thorough investigation and to establish transparently what happened. He said the government would take necessary measures based on what the investigation finds. He also warned against fueling conspiracy theories over the incident, and JoongAng reported that he dismissed allegations that the military had held back the announcement because of his UN General Assembly speech.
“We will take the necessary measures based on what the investigation finds.”
Korea JoongAng Daily report of September 29, 2026 on President Lee Jae Myung's Cabinet meeting remarks about the DMZ blast. The English quotations are the newspaper's rendering of Lee's Korean remarks.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case asks whether North Korean forces planted the mines. The president neither adopted the Joint Chiefs' preliminary attribution nor rejected it. He directed the military to establish what happened with the UN Command and made the government's measures depend on what the investigation finds. Because the position rests on an express, unresolved condition, we labeled it Mixed or conditional.