Vice President Sara Duterte said Monday that her remarks against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. were "taken out of logical context."

She issued the statement in a letter to the National Security Council (NSC) which earlier declared that it considers all threats to the President as serious.

"I would like to see a copy of the notice of meeting with proof of service, the list of attendees, photos of the meeting, and the notarized minutes of meeting where the Council, whether present or past, resolved to consider the remarks by a Vice President against a President, maliciously taken out of logical context, as a national security concern," Duterte said in an open letter to the NSC.

Last week, an enraged Duterte said that she told someone to kill Marcos Jr., first lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, and House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez if she were killed. Duterte later said that her statement was not a threat.

In her letter to the NSC, Duterte expressed her desire to present before the council "the threats to the Vice President, the OVP institution and its personnel."

The vice president also asked the council to submit within 24 hours "an explanation in writing with legal basis why the VP is not a member of the NSC or why as member I have not been invited to the meetings, whichever is applicable."

National Security Adviser Eduardo Año earlier said that the NSC "considers all threats to the President of the Philippines as serious."

"Any and all threats against the life of the President shall be validated and considered a matter of national security," he said in a statement.

Duterte's assassination threat prompted the Presidential Security Command to heighten Palace security as it shifted to red alert on Monday.

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