Kim Geun-sik: "Yoon Seok-yeol and Choi Jae-hyung are not deserters but student soldiers who joined the independence movement"

[Asia Economy Reporter Naju-seok] Former People Power Party Vision Strategy Office Chief Kim Geun-sik on the 1st directly refuted the criticism that former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol and former Board of Audit and Inspection Chairman Choi Jae-hyung had "deserted." He stated that they were student soldiers who were forcibly conscripted and then joined the independence movement.

On the same day, Kim said through social media (SNS), "Yoon Seok-yeol and Choi Jae-hyung are not deserters who abandoned their posts, but student soldiers who were forcibly conscripted during the Japanese colonial period and returned after finding the right path to liberation."

He added, "During the Japanese colonial era, figures like Kim Jun-yeop and Jang Jun-ha were forcibly taken as student soldiers by the Japanese but escaped and participated in the independence movement. Although they were appointed by President Moon as Prosecutor General and Board of Audit and Inspection Chairman, they resigned voluntarily for the cause of fairness and the rule of law after witnessing a regime that obstructed investigations into the living power and systematically interfered with the audit of the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant."

Earlier, Yoon Ho-jung, floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, appeared on TBS Radio's 'Kim Eo-jun's News Factory' and criticized, "Former Chairman Choi and former Prosecutor General Yoon deserted their posts as soldiers would," calling them "deserters."

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