尹 “When it comes to resignation, the president tells me to finish my duty” … 靑 “No admission”

Minister of Justice exiting the government building On the afternoon of the 22nd, Justice Minister Chu Miae (left) and Vice Minister Koki-young leave the Ministry of Justice. Minister Chu posted a post on Facebook at 5:56 pm that day, “The Attorney General is a public official under the command and supervision of the Minister of Justice.” Gwacheon = Newsis

Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol announced on the 22nd that he had received a message from President Moon Jae-in to maintain his two-year term after the National Assembly elections 4 · 15.

Yoon told the National Assembly Audit Committee of the National Assembly in the Legislative and Judicial Committee this afternoon, “The president, who is the nominee, told us to carry out his duties during his term. He conveyed the meaning of fulfilling his duties while maintaining his mandate ”. He continued: “I believe that faithfully doing what I will do during my tenure is not only for the people who have the authority to appoint, but also for the people, and I will do my duty without being shaken.” Representative Jang Je-won said, “People are concerned that the Lime incident has seized the authority of the investigation and urged the resignation of President Yoon in a frivolous manner to capture the family case (including the authority of investigation and command) “Yes, I do” was the answer to the question.

This attracted attention because it was a more advanced comment than the one on the morning of the National Assembly, which said: “The issue of residence is because the person with the right to name does not speak.” President Yoon replied, “I will do my job regardless of the pressure, as my term is a promise made to the people until morning.”

Yoon did not mention who the messenger connected between President Moon and the President was. Among Yoon’s aides, “President Moon gave him the floor to ‘serve the two-year term,” but it is interpreted as a qualitatively different meaning at the start of the current administration, which gave him full powers. In particular, given that the Park Geun-hye administration accepted the acceptance of the resignation of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at the time of Choi Soon-sil’s special prosecution as “ exclusive abuse, ” President Moon’s statements to guarantee the mandate were “ only diplomatic investigations ” aware of the controversy over abuse of authority. Mistrust is also detected. A prosecution official said: “Isn’t the daily pressure from the ruling party on the attorney general and the reform message in the prosecution is the same as the story that Yoon asked to go out on his own”? Meanwhile, President Yoon had a fierce confrontation with the passport while going through the so-called “ living power ” investigation phase, such as the investigation into the family of former Justice Minister Cho Kook and the Blue House’s suspicion of intervention in the election of the mayor of Ulsan last year. The Minister of Justice, Choo Mi-ae, was a person who had assumed the post after taking office and relegated the so-called key personnel of the chief swordsman to the provinces. Subsequently, the investigative command authority was successively invoked, which in fact was accepted as pressure for the withdrawal of the passport towards President Yoon.

The Blue House did not show an official response. An official from the Blue House said: “I don’t know if it is true” and “we have nothing to say about it.” Inside and outside the Blue House, as President Yoon said that the president’s intent was delivered through an “appropriate messenger,” there is a possibility that the moving message was delivered indirectly through key passport officials. President Moon said at a New Years press conference in January this year: “I believe that if President Yoon takes the initiative to fix the organizational culture and investigative practices of the prosecution, we will receive much more trust from the people.” . However, within the Blue House, there are reactions that are unpleasant to Yoon’s disclosure of a message about the president’s intrinsic authority, human resource rights, in the CEO. A Blue House official said: “It was a very inappropriate and unpleasant comment” and “Isn’t it used to increase my authority?”

Jang Seok [email protected], Reporter Hyung Jun Hwang