Leader of Korea’s Presidential Security Service Resigns
After this resignation Acting President Choi is calling for the National Assembly to pass a bill requesting an independent investigation of President Yoon. I highly doubt the DPK will agree to an independent investigation, but I guess we will see what happens:
South Korea’s acting leader on Friday accepted the resignation of the chief of the presidential security service, Park Jong-joon, as he faced police questioning over how his forces blocked law enforcement efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol last week. The acting leader, Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok, also expressed regret over the clashes between law enforcement officials and the presidential security service and called for lawmakers to reach a bipartisan agreement to launch an independent investigation.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials and police are planning a second attempt to bring Yoon into custody as they jointly investigate whether his brief martial law declaration on Dec. 3 amounted to an attempted rebellion. The presidential security service blocked an earlier attempt to detain Yoon at his official residence, which he has not left for weeks. It wasn’t immediately clear how Park’s resignation and Choi’s call for an independent investigation to take over the probe on Yoon would affect the push to bring Yoon into custody.
“The government has been deliberating to find a wise solution, but unfortunately, within our current legal framework, it’s difficult to find a clear resolution to end the conflict between the two agencies,” Choi said about the tensions between the anti-corruption office and presidential security service over Yoon’s potential detention. “We urge the ruling and opposition parties to work together to agree on a bill to launch a special prosecutor investigation that is free from constitutional issues. This will naturally resolve the ongoing intense standoff.
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Funny, but it’s the DPK that has been demanding that the President be investigated through a special group of independent investigators.
It was the PPP party that refused. They in fact, refused to do anything, period. Even refused to vote for impeachment (only 12 out of 104 PPP members voted for impeachment, which meant the impeachment bill barely passed).
You should be blaming the PPP and the acting President Choi who also refuses to do anything. The DPK party is just an opposition party, they do not have the power to decide on any bills or any decision without getting bi-partisan support from the ruling PPP party.