Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol is on the morning of the 2nd to work at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul. News 1
The dominant analysis is that Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol poured out strong remarks through media interviews on the promotion of the Passport’s Severe Crime Investigation Office (the Heavy Water Service), which aims to deprive the prosecution of the prosecution’s right to investigate, because of the imminent sense of crisis. When it was judged that the installation of the heavy water office was no different from the dissolution of the prosecution, it was said that the dissatisfaction with the politicians had been vomited all at once.
In the process of collecting opinions from front-line prosecutors, President Yoon suddenly revealed his thoughts without adding or subtracting it because of the ruling party’s swift movement to materialize a bill related to the heavy water administration. The ruling Democratic Party, a giant ruling party, proposed a new bill for the heavy water office this month, and formulated a specific timetable, saying that it would pass it by the National Assembly by June. In light of the precedent that the Democratic Party created a high-ranking public officials criminal investigation agency (airborne agency) despite opposition from the opposition party last year, the possibility of establishing a heavy water office is high.
General Yoon said that the ruling party’s’completion of prosecution’ (complete deprivation of the prosecution’s right to investigate) legislation was an attempt to dismantle the prosecution. In an interview with the Kookmin Ilbo, Yoon also criticized “the legislation that is being promoted now is a straightforward legislation that destroys the criminal justice system for over 70 years.”
The internal reaction of the prosecutors is that from the point of view of Yun, who is called a’prosecutor’s heart to the bone’, such an urgent situation could not have been seen. An executive at the Metropolitan Prosecutors’ Office said, “Isn’t it that the situation in which the prosecution is facing is so desperate that the prosecutors’ situation is so desperate that Yoon, who refrained from expressing his position even in the face of a disciplinary claim by former Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae last year.” The Prosecutor General also said, “There are cases in which the president, who is about to retire, speaks of a small meeting, but there is no precedent to express a dissenting opinion explicitly on a specific issue. I wonder if I did it up to,” he said.
President Yoon has repeatedly pondered the format and timing of his opinions regarding the movement to introduce the passport for heavy water administration. It was judged that it was not enough to reveal the injustice of the separation of the investigation and prosecution with a short statement, and it was judged that it was not appropriate to express an opinion when visiting the Daegu High Prosecutors’ Office and District Prosecutor’s Office scheduled for the 3rd. It was also reviewed how to hold a meeting with the media, but it is known that it has collapsed in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
There are many interpretations of Yoon’s mobilization of a somewhat harsh language that is likely to be heard in politics. It is not only a declaration of opposition to the installation of the heavy water office, but a representative statement such as’democraticism is abolishing the rule of law, destroying the spirit of the constitution’, and’a ridiculous slick legislation’. A senior prosecutor’s office at the prosecutor’s office said, “The atmosphere of the National Assembly is not very serious recently, so it seems that it is not a’free’ situation that is so euphemistically opposed. “Isn’t it?” he said.
As President Yoon has already surpassed the normal level of remarks, it is expected that he will raise a voice against the installation of the heavy water office whenever there is an opportunity in the future. When the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office delivers the opinions of the front-line prosecutors’ office, which are being gathered up to this week, to the Ministry of Justice, it is highly likely that the opinions of President Yoon will be reflected. On the 3rd, there is an opportunity to express their position again when visiting Daegu High Prosecutors’ Office and District Prosecutors’ Office.
Justice Minister Park Beom-gye asked reporters on the day,’Do you have any plans to discuss with President Yoon regarding the establishment of the Heavy Water Agency?’ “I am always open. I have the intention of meeting,” he answered, but the spark of conflict still remains. A deputy prosecutor of the local prosecutor’s office predicted, “If Park listens to President Yoon’s position and ignores him, as in the prosecution’s middle officials, he can make a hard-line remark.”
Some are interpreting that the fact that the incumbent prosecutor general expressed his position to the media by mobilizing harsh words is “isn’t that a paving stone for political activities?” Choosing a method that is easy to draw attention from public opinion by establishing an angle with the regime cannot be viewed in a pure sense.
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