Lee Hae-chan "How dare you call the Moon government corrupt... Political retaliation is outrageous" Yoon sharply criticizes

"The Moon Administration Promoted the Prosecutor General Rapidly"
"If It's Deep-rooted Corruption, Yoon Seok-yeol Bears Significant Responsibility"

Former Leader of the Democratic Party Lee Hae-chan. Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Juhee] Former leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, Lee Hae-chan, fiercely criticized Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, who mentioned "investigations into accumulated evils during the ruling period," saying, "How dare you even utter the words 'Moon Jae-in government's accumulated evils'?"

On the 9th, in a post titled "Who is Candidate Yoon Seok-yeol trying to slander and shed crocodile tears for this time?" uploaded on the Lee Jae-myung Plus app, former leader Lee said, "Today, candidate Yoon Seok-yeol declared political retaliation against the Moon Jae-in government. It's outrageous."

He asked, "What are accumulated evils? They are the corruption of those who have long held vested interests, rotten and layered deeply," adding, "How can there be accumulated evils in the Moon Jae-in government, which endured harassment from the prosecution, the Board of Audit and Inspection, and conservative media for less than five years, and tirelessly advanced K-quarantine and the G10 nation status?"

He continued, "Candidate Yoon was the person who was entrusted with the most critical role in clearing accumulated evils from past governments and judging the manipulation of state affairs, and even promoted the Prosecutor General rapidly," adding, "If there is anything that can be called accumulated evils in the Moon Jae-in government, a significant part of the responsibility lies with candidate Yoon Seok-yeol."

Former leader Lee also strongly criticized candidate Yoon for showing a choked-up expression when he visited Gangjeong Village in Seogwipo City, Jeju, where the Gangjeong Naval Base is located, on the 5th, mentioning the late former President Roh Moo-hyun, who pushed for the base's construction, calling it "crocodile tears."

He said, "I could not tell whether to believe those tears. As he himself admitted, candidate Yoon was the person who investigated the family of former President Roh Moo-hyun when the Lee Myung-bak government oppressed and persecuted him while he was living modestly as a private citizen,"

and asked, "If candidate Yoon, who contributed to slandering former President Roh through political retaliation, now carries out political retaliation against the Moon Jae-in government, then who exactly does he intend to harm and what does he intend to do?"

He added, "Former President Kim Dae-jung pardoned Chun Doo-hwan, who had sentenced him to death, and the Moon Jae-in government pardoned even Park Geun-hye, who was impeached, to prevent the vicious cycle of political retaliation,"

"However, now that candidate Yoon has uttered political retaliation, this election has become a presidential election to prevent a tragic event that must never happen again," he said. He also urged, "We cannot move toward the future if the unfortunate past of political retaliation repeats. Let us all unite our strength so that the barbaric past does not return."

Earlier, candidate Yoon said in an interview with JoongAng Ilbo on the same day, "How many crimes did the Democratic Party government commit using the prosecution? They must bear corresponding responsibility," mentioning investigations into accumulated evils. When asked if he would conduct investigations into accumulated evils of the previous government if elected, he replied, "Yes, I will. (The investigation) must be done."

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