The six opposition parties, including the Democratic Party of Korea, independently passed the ‘Insurrection Special Prosecutor Act’ at the National Assembly Legislative and Judiciary Committee yesterday, which stipulates that if the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court recommends two special prosecutor candidates, the President appoints one of them, and the opposition party’s right to re-recommend (non-vote) is eliminated. Before that, the opposition party had the right to recommend special prosecutor candidates, and the opposition party could re-recommend if it did not like the appointed special prosecutor. It is fortunate that the unfair poison clause was removed.
However, this time, the charge of ‘foreign currency seduction’ was added to the special prosecutor’s investigation, creating a new topic of controversy. President Yoon Seok-yeol said, ‘Inducing war or armed conflict by sending troops to overseas conflict areas, operating loudspeakers against North Korea, greatly expanding the distribution of anti-North Korea leaflets, infiltrating Pyongyang with drones, striking North Korea’s waste balloons at the origin, and inducing North Korea’s attack at the Northern Limit Line (NLL). The charge is ‘or attempted to cause it’. Is the opposition party trying to turn security into a political issue?
The government could not even send the observation team that was once considered to understand the movements of North Korean troops deployed to the Ukraine war, so why are suspicions about sending troops being raised? In the case of suspicions of drone infiltration into Pyongyang, North Korea’s waste balloon strike at the origin, and inducing NLL attacks, the reality is still unclear. The Ministry of National Defense repeatedly denied these allegations yesterday, expressing concern that “some people are linking normal military activities and measures to a martial law situation and raising suspicions of ‘North Wind Maneuver’, which is causing security instability and reducing our military’s military activities.” .
If our military punishes the operation of anti-North Korea loudspeakers, which was implemented ex post facto in response to North Korea’s waste balloon provocation, or the distribution of anti-North Korea leaflets supported by friendly countries such as the United States as part of North Korea’s openness policy, as ‘foreign exchange attraction’, our military’s ability to respond to North Korea Of course, solidarity with allies of freedom will be greatly damaged. The ‘North Korea Leaflet Ban Act’, which the Democratic Party created with North Korea in mind during the Moon Jae-in administration, was ridiculed as the ‘Kim Yo-jung’s name law’ and was ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court. This is why the Democratic Party is being criticized for sympathizing with North Korea.
Due to the Moon Jae-in administration’s poor coordination of investigative powers, the investigation into President Yoon’s alleged treason is being conducted separately between the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Office (Corruption Investigation Office), the police, and the prosecution, giving rise to various illegal controversies. The Corruption Investigation Agency and the Presidential Security Service are continuing a heated standoff over the execution of President Yoon’s arrest warrant. Only a special prosecution law agreed upon by the ruling and opposition parties can alleviate the conflict that has reached a critical point. ‘Foreign exchange seduction crime’ should be excluded from the special prosecutor’s investigation, and the ruling and opposition parties should agree to create a special prosecutor’s law. I hope that the People’s Power Party, which is preparing its own special prosecution law, will not create the misunderstanding that it is an anti-special prosecution force by excessively holding back.
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