Kim Min-seok "Money Envelope Suspicion, Directly Linked to Nomination? ... Absurd Imagination"

"Song Young-gil Has No Material Desires" Controversy Called a "Superfluous Remark"

Kim Min-seok, the Policy Committee Chair of the Democratic Party of Korea, called the concern that the party's internal 'money envelope suspicion' would directly affect lawmakers' nominations for next year "an utterly absurd imagination."

On the morning of the 1st, Kim said on KBS Radio's 'Choi Kyung-young's Strong Current Affairs,' "Wasn't there a time when (former leader Song Young-gil's) return itself was a matter of interest?" adding, "There were even talks about what sanctions should be taken if he did not come back."

He continued, "It is not normal to exercise the imagination that former leader Song's return, which was done forgetting that premise, would influence the nomination," emphasizing, "It is an absurd story far from the facts."

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Regarding his description of former leader Song on Facebook on the 23rd of last month as 'having no house' and 'a person with little material desire,' he explained, "I attached meaning to the rule of proving oneself by leaving the party and returning, and when he went to Paris, he said he was a person who studied very hard, but it seems that this has become like an unnecessary addition."

About the leadership's response to the party's money envelope suspicion under prosecution investigation, he said, "The issue of fact-finding investigation has already been discussed by quite a number of lawmakers, and I think that matter has been somewhat settled for now," adding, "What is the point of investigating people who do not know the details at all?"

He further explained, "Because the scope to which such rules can be applied is still somewhat unclear," and "So, as progress is made through the prosecution investigation, the party should make judgments accordingly."

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