Chu Mi-ae, Yoon Seok-yeol for the first time to ‘resign’ … “It is not the seat of the president to be in politics.”

[아시아경제 조성필 기자] Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae raised the bar on the offensive by raising the word “resign” to Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol. This is the first time that Yoon and Minister Chu, who had been in conflict over the reform of the prosecution and the investigation of individual cases since taking office, urged the resignation of an open position.

Minister Chu attended the Special Committee on Budget and Accounting of the National Assembly on the 11th and said, in addition to questions from lawmakers: “In today’s presidential election results, Yun won first place. He stressed that Yoon’s tenure (two years) is not retracting his position as a shield.

Minister Chu said: “The media is very responsible for the person who should lead the prosecution in a neutral way, revealing his political ambition and taking the initiative for the presidential candidate.” “It is not about sovereign victims, but about the sovereignty that plays in the hands of the prosecution.” Regarding the accusation that “Chief Yoon met with conservative media owners one after another,” Minister Chu said, “If true, it violates the code of conduct for prosecutors and the ethics of prosecutors.”

That day, Minister Chu mentioned the word “resignation” twice during his remarks. Recently, while Yoon was taking a tour of local prosecutors, he criticized that “the general’s actions are undermining the political neutrality of prosecutors,” but he is Minister Chu, who did not use the word ‘resignation’. However, the day Yoon rose to the top of the next great power in an opinion poll was different. Minister Chu said: “The political neutrality of prosecutors is life.”

Minister Chu also criticized the ‘Early closure of Wolsong Unit 1’, which is being investigated by the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office. He said: “Although it is obviously not a power-type corruption, we carried out a large-scale seizure and search, and targeted the secretary of the Blue House, which was not a problem for the Audit and Inspection Board,” said. I can “he pointed out.

The case centers on the suspicion that the government has reduced the economic viability of Wolsong Unit 1 and removed related data. The accusation was filed with the Daejeon District Attorney’s Office and the 5th Division of the District Attorney’s Office (Chief Prosecutor Sang-Hyeon Lee) is investigating it. Chief Prosecutor Sang-Hyun Lee was in harmony with President Yoon’s investigation team in the 2013 case, and the Daejeon District Attorney’s Office is Prosecutor Lee Doo-bong, who is an assistant to President Yoon. On the 5th and 6th, the investigation team carried out simultaneous seizures and searches at the office of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy and the headquarters of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.

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