Jung Jin-seok: "Kim Eui-gyeom's 'If not, so be it' style agitation... Must apologize to Yoon and Han Dong-hoon"

"Giving a Watch to Kwon Yang-sook Is a 'Fact'... Jo Jeong-sik, Will He Confess 'Black Money Went to Lee Jae-myung'?"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] On the 25th, Jeong Jin-seok, Emergency Response Committee Chairman of the People Power Party, criticized Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Eui-gyeom's claim at the Judiciary Committee's national audit the previous day that President Yoon Seok-yeol and Minister of Justice Han Dong-hoon had a drinking party, calling it "baseless false agitation," and demanded an apology. Regarding recent remarks by Democratic Party Secretary-General Jo Jeong-sik comparing the investigation into Lee Jae-myung's presidential campaign funds to the "Nondureong watch" incident, Jeong launched a fierce attack, saying, "It is true that the watch was handed over."

On the same day, Jeong posted on his social network service (SNS), "How long will you continue to use the parliamentary immunity at the national audit site to spread baseless false agitation and cause humiliation?"

At the Judiciary Committee's audit the previous day, lawmaker Kim, based on a tip from a media outlet, claimed that "on July 19, at a high-end bar in Cheongdam-dong, 30 lawyers from Kim & Chang gathered for a drinking party attended by President Yoon and Minister Han." However, Minister Han responded by calling it "nonsense lies" and pressured lawmaker Kim to stake his position in return.

Jeong said, "Even a sitting prosecutor would not attend a gathering of 30 law firm lawyers," adding, "Does it make any sense that the President and the Minister of Justice attended such a place with security personnel mobilized? Looking at the facts, I even doubt whether there is a whistleblower as claimed by lawmaker Kim."

Regarding Secretary-General Jo's recent remarks comparing the investigation into Lee Jae-myung's presidential campaign funds to the "Nondureong watch" incident involving former President Roh Moo-hyun, Jeong said, "It is a fact that Park Yeon-cha handed a Piaget watch to former President Roh's wife (Kwon Yang-sook)," adding, "There was only some suspicion about the whereabouts of the watch?whether it was thrown into a ditch, smashed by President Roh with a hammer, or lost."

Jeong criticized, "Secretary-General Jo's remarks are nothing but a confession that 'black money went to Lee Jae-myung,'" adding, "I feel a sense of panic. Even so, I hope there is at least basic 'fact-checking'."

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