The Democratic Party of Korea has been stepping up its all-out offensive against the ruling party and the prosecution since Lee Jae-myung's acquittal in the first trial of perjury.
As the impeachment of three incumbent prosecutors, including the head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, has become a reality, the prosecution has also launched a collective backlash.
In particular, 33 senior prosecutors at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office issued a joint statement, stressing that the impeachment process should be stopped immediately, saying that there will be a vacuum in the judicial system.
Rep. Park Beom-gye, a former justice minister, refuted this and criticized it. Let's listen to it.
[Park Beom-gye / Rep. Kim Tae-hyun of the Democratic Party of Korea (SBS's political show): When one or two people's duties are suspended, the prosecution's entire power is suspended, the prosecution's right to prosecute is reduced, so why do you stand up like a bee when it comes to your own problems? Stand up like a flock of bees for your country. Why do the remaining senior prosecutors talk so unilaterally about the impeachment of those two or three district attorneys and the two or three senior prosecutors? That's not the place. It's not a gangster. What are you doing? That's not right. I'd like to tell our senior prosecutors to get a grip on the fact that it's a collective action and that it's not given by the Constitution and law to use the prosecution's power like that.]
The Democratic Party of Korea decided to hold impeachment hearings on three incumbent prosecutors, as well as prosecutors Kang Vaccine and Um Hee-joon, who investigated the Daejang-dong and Baekhyeon-dong cases of representative Lee Jae-myung, on the 11th of next month.
The ruling party immediately refuted the claim.
At the Supreme Council of the People's Power this morning, floor leader Choo Kyung-ho raised the level of criticism, saying that the Democratic Party's impeachment of the prosecution is close to madness.Let's listen to
[Choo Kyung-ho / Floor Leader of People's Power (Today's Supreme Council): It is the 12th impeachment of prosecutors since the Yoon Suk Yeol government. It is the seventh time in half a year since the 22nd National Assembly. Although the constitutional spirit is that impeachment should be made extremely exceptional only when there is a serious violation of the constitution or law in the job of a high-ranking public official, the Democratic Party's impeachment of the prosecution is close to madness. At this point, the Democratic Party seems to intend to paralyze the entire prosecution beyond personal retaliation against the prosecutors who investigated them. If you destroy the prosecution investigating criminals, who catches all those thieves all over the country? If the Democratic Party of Korea turns the Republic of Korea into a criminal paradise without prosecutors, it is the common people and the weak who end up suffering.]
Meanwhile, factional conflicts have been intensifying recently, including the controversy over party bulletin boards.
The war of words between former Supreme Council member Kim Min-jeon and representative Han Dong-hoon at the recent Supreme Council has generated various reviews.
How did the opposition see it? Let's hear from Park Ji-won of the Democratic Party.
[Park Ji-won of the Democratic Party of Korea (CBS Kim Hyun-jung's news show): If Han Dong-hoon is a representative with political power in front of former Supreme Council member Kim Min-jeon because he said, "I watched that show," he can be so mean in meetings and in political circles. Get angry and tell me the facts, and what's coming out now? Jamminjeon, Burak Donghun. (What's Jamminjeon?) Former lawmaker Kim Min was sleeping at the plenary session and a picture came out. Jamminjeon. Burak Dong-hoon, Pal Dong-hoon. Seeing that people talk about this, that house is also a bean powder family. However, countries with nuclear weapons cannot attack each other because Yoon Suk Yeol knows Han Dong-hoon's weaknesses best and Han Dong-hoon knows Yoon Suk Yeol's weaknesses well. (Do you each have a nuclear weapon?) Yes, we do. That's why they can't attack, so they're making an indirect war by cautioning them.]
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