[Breaking] Lee Jae-myung Appears at Suwon District Prosecutors' Office... "Regimes Are Short, but the People and History Are Eternal"

Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, who is accused of third-party bribery related to Ssangbangwool Group's 'illegal remittance to North Korea,' appeared at the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office at 1:20 p.m. on the 12th.

After getting out of the car, Lee greeted Democratic Party lawmakers and party officials who had come out to support him on site one by one, then stood at the photo line.

Lee raised his right hand to stop the reporters' questions and calmly stated his prepared position.

Lee said, "This is my second appearance before the prosecution, and today I will see if they present any evidence that I am involved in the remittance to North Korea," adding, "For two years, they changed the topics from paying my lawyer fees, paying for smart farm expenses, to paying for North Korea visits. They mobilized a scale of personnel equivalent to a single prosecutor's office, including dozens of prosecutors and hundreds of investigators, conducted hundreds of raids, and questioned hundreds of people, but they could not find a single piece of evidence."

He said, "The reason is that it is not true," and added, "I also asked the prosecutors, but I am not foolish enough to commit such a serious crime as asking a corrupt businessman, who is a former gangster and illegal loan shark, whose face I do not even know, to pay a huge sum of 10 billion won on my behalf to North Korea just to take a single photo during a visit."

Lee said, "No matter how much they try to call me and make me look like a criminal, a fact that does not exist cannot be created," and added, "The people and history will judge and decide."

He also said, "The reason the people entrusted power to us is to promote a better life for the people and build a better country, not to privatize power with the thought of 'I am the state' to eliminate political opponents or to use it as a means of violent domination," and added, "I ask that we pay more attention to the difficult livelihoods and economy that our people are experiencing, not neglect the peace crisis on the Korean Peninsula that is changing based on Asia, and focus more on protecting the lives and safety of the people."

Finally, Lee said, "Regimes are short-lived, but the people and history are eternal," before heading into the building.

When reporters asked Lee, who was entering the building, "Have you heard from Lee Hwa-young about the remittance to North Korea?" Lee briefly replied, "That is completely untrue."

Regarding the suspicion of remittance to North Korea, Lee is undergoing his second summons investigation on this day following the first on the 9th.

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