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President Moon Jae-in’s remarks at the State Council, which were released on the 19th, were all 15 letters. It was different from the precedent that revealed remarks containing key messages prior to the start of the normal state council.
President Moon Jae-in is presiding over the 3rd State Council meeting at the Blue House on the 19th. President Moon proceeded with the agenda without any comments on this day. Blue House Photo Reporters
The meeting of the State Council, which began in the midst of President Moon’s “silence,” was scheduled to deal with an amendment to the Act on Special Cases for the Punishment of Child Abuse Crimes, referred to as the “Jung In Lee Act”. It was accompanied by a promulgation of amendment to the Civil Law that removed the provision of the disciplinary rights of children, which were considered grounds for corporal punishment of children.
Unfortunately, the adoption issue emerged as a key controversy at President Moon’s New Year press conference the day before.
At an interview, President Moon explained the countermeasures related to the death case of child abuse, saying, “Even adoptive parents can change their minds.”Adoption canceled again within a certain periodOr if you still have a strong desire to adopt, but you do not agree with the child Changing adopted children There is also a need for measures to protect adopted children while revitalizing the adoption itself in various ways.”
This remark struck the opposition party and other adoption groups and the public. This is because there is a possibility to interpret that it was proposed as a countermeasure to return the child.
Blue House spokesman Kang Min-seok explained, “The purpose of supplementing the’pre-consignment protection system’, which is customarily used with the consent of the adoptive parents before adoption is confirmed,” through a text notification within three hours of the interview. A key member of the Blue House also visited the press room and said, “We used it only customarily with the consent of our adoptive parents, but now we are considering legalization through the revision of the Adoption Special Law. It’s not that we want to explode it.”
In this situation, President Moon avoided direct comments on the controversy while dealing with the relevant bill at the State Council on the day.
Instead, spokesman Kang appeared on a radio broadcast and continued to clarify.
Spokesman Kang said in an interview with a broadcaster that day, “the answer to (interview) was that the President had conceived it alone,” and “the conceived content was expressed in the political language of the president at the conference.”
On the afternoon of the 13th, a photo of a 16-month-old infant Jung In (pseudonym) is placed in the high family Andersen Park Cemetery in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi Province. The 13th Criminal Division of the Seoul Southern District Law held the first trial of the mother-in-law of Jung In-i, who was convicted of violation of the Child Abuse Punishment Act (child abuse death), and Ahn-mo, the adoptive father, who is accused of violating the Child Welfare Act (child abandonment and neglect). . News 1
Spokesman Kang said, “(The opposition party) made the misunderstanding considerably stronger.” “For children, the expression’return’ was too harsh.” therefore “There is no intention of the President or the consciousness of’child return’ in his head. I’m rather curious how (the opposition party) made such an idea possible.”Said.
The host asked again, “Even so, do you admit that (the President’s) expression was inappropriate?”
The Blue House did not explain why President Moon didn’t all speak on this day. At the state council meeting, which began with the silence of President Moon, 13 legal promulgations including the’Jung In Lee Act’ and 2 legal bills were dealt with in an hour.
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