In response to reports that the prosecution had secured a statement in connection with the forced repatriation of North Korean defectors to North Korea, Chung Eui-yong, the former head of the National Security Office of the Blue House, ordered that fishermen's expressions of voluntary defection be deleted from the report, said Joo Ho-young, floor leader of People's Power. It would be right to see it as an attempt. It's a criminal act," he said.
"The key to the repatriation of North Korean fishermen in 2019 is whether the government at the time deliberately ignored the defectors' intention to defect," Joo said at a parliamentary audit countermeasures meeting held at the National Assembly.
He added, "The public needs to know clearly whether it was the sole decision of the former chief of staff or whether former President Moon Jae-in received the report."
"People always shout, 'People come first,' but I just wonder why it's happening so often in the Democratic Party's administration, which puts human rights at the forefront, when they denigrate the death of a brutally murdered public official as 'sloppy'," said Joo. The people will judge this duality well.”
"In the end, it seems to be the result of the Democratic Party's successive subjugation and reconciliation policies toward North Korea," said Joo, referring to the situation of increased military tension on the Korean Peninsula, such as North Korea firing missiles every day.
Meanwhile, floor leader Joo said, "The Democratic Party is concentrating its firepower on the president and the people around him."
Regarding the court's dismissal or dismissal of all requests for injunction to suspend the effect of 'Jeong Jin-seok's non-subordinate' submitted by former CEO Lee Jun-seok yesterday, he said, "It seems that we have come out of the tunnel of injunctions that have weighed on our party." Let's have confidence that it is a party that we can trust and trust," he said.
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