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The ruling and opposition parties all criticized the airlift..."The warrant itself is a problem". "Incompetence and indecision".

2025.01.06 PM 06:02
[Anchor]
Both the ruling and opposition parties strongly criticized the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit over the execution of the Yoon Suk Yeol presidential arrest warrant, but the opposite was true.

The ruling party urged the government to conduct a voluntary investigation rather than a forced one in consideration of its national prestige, while the opposition party slammed the indecision of the airborne chief, who hesitated to arrest him.

I'm reporter Jeong In-yong.

[Reporter]
The People's Power has repeatedly claimed that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, which does not have the authority to investigate allegations of rebellion, has excessively obtained an arrest warrant for President Yoon.

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea and Cho Kuk, the former leader of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, also urged the government to conduct a voluntary investigation rather than a forced investigation in consideration of national prestige.

[Kwon Young-se / People's Power Emergency Management Committee Chairman: Even for a president whose duties have only been suspended, the government should not play into the political instigation of the Democratic Party, but consider its national prestige and investigate it arbitrarily within the legal framework....]

About 40 ruling party lawmakers gathered in front of the president's residence to stop the president's arrest, and some say it was reminiscent of the second round of the "human shield" built by the security service during the first warrant execution.

[Rep. Na Kyung-won / People's Power: The most important thing is not to end everything quickly, but when the process is in line with the rule of law, I think the national opinion can go into the future without being divided]

On the other hand, the Democratic Party of Korea set the day that it would not overlook Oh Dong-woon, the head of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, saying he showed incompetent and indecisive behavior.

Amid the continued noise over the belated appointment of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit to the police to execute the arrest warrant, there was also a strong voice that the role of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit should be drastically reduced.

[Yoon Gun-young / Rep. of the Democratic Party of Korea (MBC Radio 'Kim Jong-bae's Attention'): Contact the National Investigation Agency, and you set the country straight, set justice, that's the mission of the police. It's a mission given by the people....]

The Democratic Party also raised the pressure level further by taking out a card accusing Acting President Choi Sang-mok of "dereliction of duty" saying he did not cooperate with the arrest of President Yoon.

[Kim Min-seok / Supreme Council member of the main opposition Minjoo Party: What's the real reason for increasing economic instability by refusing to appoint the Constitutional Court, cooperate with warrants, and request an independent counsel?]


The confrontation between the opposition party, which defines the controversy over 'obstruction of arrest' as the second civil war, and the ruling party that the judicial order is shaken by the illegal warrant is expected to continue until the conclusion is reached on whether President Yoon will be arrested.

In addition to the conflict between the ruling and opposition parties, the political turmoil is intensifying due to the controversy over confusion between investigative and judicial institutions.

This is YTN Jeong Yong-yong.

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