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Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae today (11th) told Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol that he would rather resign from his post as president and pursue politics.
He also directly mentioned the report that Yun was ranked first in the approval rating of the president.
This is Park Ha-jung.
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Inquiries about the prosecution's investigation into the suspicion of manipulating the evaluation of Wolseong Unit 1 were followed against the National Assembly's Special Committee on Budget and Accounting and Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae.
After Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol revealed his political ambitions, Minister Chu criticized the case as a prejudiced investigation for political purposes, saying that it felt like a lightning strike.
President Yoon mentioned that he was ranked No. 1 in the opinion polls of the next presidential runner, and set the day to resign.
[Yang Lee Won-young/ Democratic Party Member: How should I view the fact that the audit results are being seized and searched on a completely different side from the report?]
[Chu Mi-ae/Minister of Justice: If such a national suspicion is raised, resign and resign I think it should be done.]
Minister Chu visited the juvenile center last January and held a chat with a member of the People's Strength, asking if the encouragement money provided was not a special activity expense.
[Jun-young Bae/Representative Power of the People: 2.91 million won is the cost of the work?
Is this a special activity fee?]
[Chu Mi-ae/Minister of Justice: It is not a special activity fee, it is not an up-
churn expense
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[Jun-Young Bae/People's Power Member: Then what?]
[Chu Miae/Minister of Justice: Should I say that?
It was executed according to the purpose of the institutional operation expenses and the money raised by the staff to help the underprivileged.] In
this process, the preliminary committee chairman Jeong Seong-ho came up and asked Minister Chu to refrain from answering the inquiries. I even said to do it.