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Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who had been suspended at the order of Attorney General Choo Mi-ae, returned to office after a week on the afternoon of the 1st yesterday.

When the court accepted Yun's request for suspension of execution, the court said that the minister's exercise of command should be kept to a minimum for the prosecution's independence and political neutrality.



Reporter Jung Joon-ho reports.



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Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol went to work at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office at around 5:10 pm yesterday.



It has been 7 days since Minister Choo Mi-ae imposed a job exclusion on the 24th of last month.



[Suk-Yeol Yoon/Prosecutor General: Thank you to the judiciary for making a quick decision to get back to work quickly.

As a public official in the Republic of Korea, I promise to do my best to uphold the constitutional spirit and rule of law.]



Immediately after returning to the prosecutors, President Yoon announced

that he would keep

constitutional values ​​and political neutrality through an email to the entire prosecutors' office, and to become the public prosecutor through fair and equal enforcement of criminal law. It.



The return of duty is due to the acceptance of the Seoul Administrative Court's application for suspension of the suspension of duties filed by President Yoon.



First of all, the judiciary said that Yoon suffered irreparable damages due to the exclusion order, and the urgent need to suspend the effect was acknowledged.



In particular, he said that if the prosecutor general obeys the command and supervision of the Minister of Justice, the independence and political neutrality of the prosecutors cannot be maintained, and that the exercise of specific command and supervision by the Minister of Justice should be kept to a minimum.



He stressed that if considering the verification of the National Assembly's personnel hearings during the appointment of the prosecutor general, the attorney general's authority to suspend his or her duties should be strictly weighed to ensure that the power of the attorney general to suspend his or her duties does not extend.



He pointed out that if this suspension of duties continues, it will actually result in the dismissal of the president, thereby disregarding the purpose of the related laws, which set the term of office as a single term of two years to ensure the independence and political neutrality of the prosecution.