Jokook: "Yoon Seok-yeol sent MB and Park to prison and perceives Moon as a 'potential suspect'... An opposition politician dreaming of the presidency"

Former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk and former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Young-eun] On the 9th, former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk said of former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who has expressed his intention to resign, "He has now clearly become an 'anti-Moon Jae-in opposition politician' dreaming of the presidency."

On the same day, Cho posted on his Facebook, titled "Since the second half of 2019, Yoon Seok-yeol's self-perception was not just a 'high-ranking official of the Moon Jae-in government'," analyzing that Yoon had harbored political ambitions since the latter half of 2019.

He continued, "During President Park Geun-hye's administration, Yoon Seok-yeol was disadvantaged while investigating the 'NIS election interference case,' and as a result, the name Yoon Seok-yeol became a symbol of a prosecutor who was persecuted for principled and courageous investigations," adding, "However, since the second half of 2019, Yoon has conducted a series of investigations targeting the Moon Jae-in government, becoming a strong presidential candidate supported by the conservative opposition."

He further added, "He gained popular prestige by standing against the Park Geun-hye government, became the Prosecutor General under the Moon Jae-in government, and then became an opposition presidential candidate by targeting the Moon Jae-in administration."

President Moon Jae-in and former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl [Image source=Yonhap News]

Additionally, he pointed out, "Since the second half of 2019, Yoon Seok-yeol was not merely a 'prosecutorialist' Prosecutor General but 'future power.' As a public official, Yoon did not deny political participation and did not officially request to remove his name from presidential candidate opinion polls."

Cho stated, "The day before his resignation, he visited the Daegu District Prosecutors' Office and said, 'This is the place that warmly embraced me during difficult times years ago. It feels like coming home.' Choosing Daegu as his last visit as Prosecutor General?could that be a coincidence?"

He continued, "Officially, from March 4, 2021, Yoon Seok-yeol became a 'politician.' Before that, did Yoon perceive himself only as the 'Prosecutor General'? Having sent two presidents to prison, at some point, he began to perceive President Moon Jae-in as a 'potential suspect.' It must have been when he started to see himself as 'future power.'"

Finally, Cho emphasized, "With this self-perception, it is reasonable to see that he judged the Moon Jae-in government as 'a power about to die' and pressured it through high-intensity targeted investigations under his command. In any case, he has now clearly become an 'anti-Moon Jae-in opposition politician' dreaming of the presidency. It is up to the candlelight citizens to verify this."

Earlier, on the 5th, the day after Yoon resigned, Cho defined him as "a Prosecutor General who, after emerging as a conservative opposition presidential candidate through persistent targeted investigations against progressive governments, declared 'the protection of liberal democracy and the people' one year before the presidential election." On the 6th, he said, "There are now three presidential candidates from the 'Prosecutor Party': Hong Joon-pyo, Hwang Kyo-ahn, and Yoon Seok-yeol."

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