The new Han government is said to "liquidate" the former president's forces, and the audit and judicial investigations against Moon Jae-in continue
[Global Times Special Correspondent in South Korea Liu Haisheng] Since the new South Korean government came to power in May this year, audits and judicial investigations against the previous government have continued.
The Korea Oversight Service and prosecutors appear to be "at the forefront" of the new government's liquidation of the previous government.
The Oversight Yuan not only focused its audit and supervision on the head of the agency appointed by the Wen government in the later period, but also set the Wen government's key promotion policy area as the key supervision and audit target in the second half of the year, which has raised strong doubts about "political supervision" from the outside world.
According to a report by South Korea's "Korean National News" on the 30th, the Korea Supervision Institute sent an official document requesting the submission of relevant materials to the Economic, Humanities and Social Research Association, the National Land Research Institute, the Korea Health and Social Research Institute, the Energy Economic Research Institute and other institutions on the 29th. Visit these institutions and conduct audits between March 31 and next month 8.
It is reported that the heads of the institutions audited this time were all appointed at the end of Moon Jae-in’s administration.
Previously, the ruling National Power Party had been publicly putting pressure on these people to "step down as soon as possible", so some analysts believed that this audit was a "resignation pressure audit".
Previously, the Overwatch Council's audit of the Korea Broadcasting and Communications Commission and the National Rights Commission was questioned as having a "political bias", causing huge controversy. Korean media therefore analyzed that the Overwatch Council's actions may be more strongly criticized by the outside world.
The report said the audit was suspected of being a "political audit" because it deviates from the usual procedures.
The Korea Oversight Agency notified the above-mentioned institutions in advance of the audit plan by telephone instead of official letter on the 25th, which violated the practice.
Among them, the Korea Health and Social Research Institute has received relevant audits in the first half of this year, and this audit is the second audit of the year.
The Korea Energy Economic Research Institute was also audited for the first time in 10 years, which was considered an unusual move.
Faced with the audit suddenly proposed by the Overwatch Council, the heads of the relevant agencies also expressed "puzzled".
In addition, the judicial investigation of Moon Jae-in by the South Korean judicial department is also accelerating.
South Korea's "Financial News" reported on the 29th that in response to the "forcible return incident of fishermen who broke away from North Korea" in November 2019, the prosecutor under investigation has obtained copies of relevant documents of the Moon Jae-in government's Blue House, and the outside world is highly concerned about the follow-up search. Whether it involved the "mastermind behind" at that time.
South Korean prosecutors went to the Presidential Archives in Sejong City on the 26th to search and copied some materials.
Previously, the prosecutors had investigated the National Intelligence Service, the Ministry of Unification and other departments.
Some analysts believe that in the next step, the prosecution is likely to directly summon Zheng Yirong, the then director of the National Security Office of the Blue House, and Xu Xun, the former director of the National Intelligence Service.
If the investigation goes further, prosecutors may continue to conduct additional searches of the presidential archives.
Some analysts said that it may not be easy for the prosecutors to use this to investigate former President Moon Jae-in, because it is difficult to obtain conclusive evidence that Moon Jae-in ordered the return of North Korean fishermen.
Some lawyers said that even if Wen Zaiyin issued relevant instructions at that time, it is unlikely that the following specific executives will write this situation on the relevant documents, so it may not be easy for the prosecution to use the Blue House documents to subpoena and investigate Wen Zaiyin. thing.
It seems that the "liquidation" of the president after stepping down has become a practice in the Korean political arena, known as the "Blue House curse" that is hard to break.
Many Koreans questioned the fairness of the "liquidation" of the Yin Xiyue government, and worried that Yin Xiyue, who was a prosecutor, would use the power of his cronies to handle the case according to his personal wishes.