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Legal Prosecutors' Reform Committee made three recommendations today (27th). According to the contents, the Attorney General said that the authority to supervise the front line prosecutors and remove the authority to conduct the investigation, and that the Minister of Justice actually instructed the investigation. He also advised that non-prosecutors be allowed to become prosecutors, and that the provisions of the law that allowed prosecutors to comment on prosecution personnel should also be changed. Today's 8 o'clock news will take a closer look at the background and meaning of this recommendation.

First, reporter Bae Joon-woo will summarize what came out today.

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The core of the recommendations issued by the Attorney General's Reform Committee is to reduce the power of the Attorney General.

First of all, it is to abolish the President's specific command and supervision over the first line prosecutors prescribed by the Public Prosecutors' Office Act.

Instead, the Minister of Justice directs the High Commissioner for Justice to take over the investigation.


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but the Minister of Justice politicians In order to stop being influenced by the law, we have prohibited the command of investigation into fire.

Regarding the prosecution, the Minister of Justice recommended that the law of the Attorney General's Office be revised to have the opinion of the Attorney General listen.

The Minister of Justice hears the opinions of the Attorney General's Committee on behalf of the President, and the Attorney General requests written opinions to the Attorney General's Committee.

He also recommended that senior prosecutors change the practice of being appointed as the Attorney General and appoint external personnel from non-prosecutors such as judges, lawyers, and women.

In this regard, the committee said that it could distribute the concentrated power to the Attorney General and improve various kinds of abolition through democratic control over the president and the prosecution organization.

But there were also voices of concern that it could undermine the prosecution's independence and political neutrality.

It is pointed out that there is room for the Justice Minister's arbitrary judgment to be involved in the investigation.

Although the Supreme Prosecutors did not take an official position, critics have criticized the inside of the prosecution for making the President of the Prosecution Officer'honorary.

(Video coverage: Doowon Yang, Video editing: Jaesung Lee, CG: Kyuyeon Kim)