An inter-Korean military agreement reached under the previous progressive government placed citizens’ lives at risk by moving a missile launch location closer to civilian areas, conservative South Korean lawmakers alleged on Thursday, two days after an ROK missile failed and crashed a short distance from civilian homes.

The accusation comes as the Yoon administration faces criticism for failing to notify local residents of the botched Hyunmoo-2 ballistic missile launch from a military range in the east coast city of Gangneung on Tuesday.

“There used to be a much safer, no-risk shooting range named Machajin, but it was unreasonably shut down”