Choi Soon-sil, the incumbent chief prosecutor who participated in the Gukjeong Nongdan Special Prosecutors' Investigation Team, posted on the prosecution's internal network that the current suspension of the prosecutor's office is illegal or unjust, and that it is an active conspiracy to follow the instructions of the superior in this phase. .
Changwon District Prosecutor's Office, Tongyeong District Prosecutor's Office, Kang Baek-shin, started an article titled ``One point related to the investigation of the Gukjeong Nongdan case'' with the stories of public officials revealed in the investigation of the Kukjeong Nongdan under the Park Geun-hye regime.
He said that the case of Gukjeong Nongdan was "a case in which numerous public officials of government ministries were mobilized under the name of an official order of the Blue House." In the investigation process, various behaviors of public officials accepting duty orders for illegal or unjust orders of the highest authority I wrote that I could confirm.
He believes that the biggest cause of Gukjeong Nongdan was the collapse of the horizontal and vertical division of power during the Park Geun-hye regime. In many cases, the orders of illegal and unjust supervisors were carried out as they were. He recalled that in many cases, courageous officials who demanded or refused to be enforced had escaped punishment.
In addition, he said that the suspension of the president's office was "a worries that the horizontal and vertical power separation system seems to be not working properly within the Ministry of Justice, similar to the Blue House at the time of the Gukjeong Nongdan incident."
In addition, at the time of the Gukjeong Nongdan crisis, "general administrative officials also rejected illegal or unjust instructions with wisdom and courage in carrying out their duties, but legal and prosecution officials who require a high degree of political neutrality as legal experts are more strict. “I realized the need to deal with illegal and unjust instructions.”
General Prosecutor Kang further evaluated that "the measures such as suspension of duties against the Prosecutor General this time are illegal and unreasonable for not following due process based on the fact that there is no entity for an investigation of living power." I did.
He said, "It seems difficult to deny that it is inevitable to be an active conspirator for illegal acts, not a subordinate in good faith, to carry out instructions that are clear enough that even Samcheok Dongja can understand the illegality and injustice."
He also said that there are two types of democratic control mechanisms for public officials in the executive branch, the rule of law, which must perform business according to the constitution and laws, and the control of the president elected by election. Recently, in our society, the latter is the only democratic control. They also expressed their opinion that they are concerned that they are undermining the fundamentals of rule of law and constitutionalism because they are misleading as if they have absolute values.
Prosecutor Kang was dispatched to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office when the investigation team of the Park Geun-hye regime expanded in November 2016, and then joined with the launch of a special prosecutor of the Gukjeong Nongdan in December of the same year, playing a pivotal role in the investigation of the case.
Since then, he has been in charge of prosecution and participated in the trial even after the prosecution of the defendants of Gukjeong Nongdan, including President Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil's family.