Song Young-gil: "Appointing Prosecutor General Yoon, a Special Investigation Unit Veteran, Was Unreasonable"

Song Young-gil, member of the Democratic Party of Korea and chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, is speaking at the plenary meeting of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee on the morning of July 14. Photo by Yonhap News.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Suwan] Song Young-gil, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, pointed out regarding Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, "From the beginning, I thought it was unreasonable to appoint Yoon as Prosecutor General in such an unconventional way."

In an interview on the BBS radio program 'Park Kyung-soo's Morning Journal' on the 7th, Song said, "Is it really appropriate to appoint someone from the Special Investigation Division as Prosecutor General?"

Song criticized, "Special investigation prosecutors are trained to recognize cases and conduct separate investigations or catch and entangle suspects. They should investigate cases and stop if necessary, but they keep digging into other matters and entangle suspects, which leads to incidents where suspects commit suicide every time."

He added, "Putting such a person in the position of Prosecutor General makes it hard to distinguish whether they are the head of the Special Investigation Division or the Prosecutor General. The Prosecutor General should leave cases to frontline prosecutors and only play a supervisory role, but becoming a Prosecutor General who runs around like a Special Investigation Division chief makes the country unstable. There is no balance," he directly criticized.

He continued, "If the opposition party says, 'What are you saying when the ruling party appointed him?' honestly, we really have nothing to say. I think we need to reflect on this."

Finally, Song emphasized the need for Yoon's voluntary resignation, saying, "The fact that the Prosecutor General is mentioned as the number one opposition presidential candidate means that, even if it was not his intention, it has become difficult to fulfill the prosecution's objective neutrality. In fact, it has become difficult to perform the duties of Prosecutor General now."

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