KUALA LUMPUR, 13 JULY: According to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, the National Security Policy (DKN) published in 2017 has been evaluated to ensure that the primary strategies are appropriate for dealing with the current form of security threats. The latest edition of DKN 2021-2025, according to Muhyiddin, who is also the head of the National Security Council (MKN), has taken into account the threats of Covid-19 and all ways to combat it.
“The global proliferation of Covid-19 since March 2020 poses a different threat to the country and the MKN in particular,” he stated today in a pre-recorded speech commemorating the MKN’s Golden Jubilee.
Muhyiddin added that the MKN’s new approach included the concept of Comprehensive Security (COMSEC), a new doctrine to replace the concept of Comprehensive Defense (HANRUH), which combines the elements of internal security, defense, public order, politics, economics, social, public health, and the environment.
“The whole national security machinery at all levels of administration, as well as members of the general public, must work together and mobilize their energy and efforts to shoulder the duty to implement the concept,” he stated.
On the occasion of the MKN Golden Jubilee celebrations, the Prime Minister stated that the council, which was established on July 7, 1971, in the aftermath of the May 13 tragedy in 1969, has achieved a number of milestones over the past 50 years, owing to its ability to coordinate various ministries, departments, and agencies in the management of complex issues.
He claimed that the MKN played a key role in security management at the federal and state levels, inadvertently defending the country’s interests on land, sea, and airspace, as well as in cyberspace, to protect sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Muhyiddin stated that the country is confronting a variety of new dangers, both traditional and non-traditional, posed by state and non-state actors, and that the MKN, together with other security agencies, must be prepared to address those threats quickly and effectively.
“Any issue or concern pertaining to security must always be kept to a bare minimum so as not to jeopardize people’s lives.”
“This is where the MKN, while remaining behind the scenes, plays a critical role in leading the administration of national security.” A tactician who goes unnoticed. A solitary thinker. He described himself as “a silent doer.”
The administration had successfully dealt with the intrusion in Lahad Datu, Sabah, managed the evacuation of Malaysians overseas during the Arab Spring, and led peace talks in Southern Thailand and Mindanao, according to Muhyiddin./n
