President Lee: "Demanding High Positions Without Capability, Attacking from Within Under Pretext of Reform"

President Lee Jae-myung stated, "While pure radicalism may be an issue, what is even more problematic is when people who lack capability demand high positions and try to dictate personnel appointments or national policy as they please, and then launch internal attacks under the pretext of radical reform when things do not go their way."

President Lee made the remarks in a post on X today (October 9), sharing an op-ed by former Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon that analyzed internal divisions within the Democratic Party of Korea around the time of its national convention.

He also quoted Cho as writing, "Instead of striking comrades for the sake of the revolution, striking comrades itself becomes the revolution. When fighters devoted body and soul to sacrificial struggles, they were purity itself, but once the revolution turns into the system (power), self-interested perspectives seep in, and the dynamics of personal politics and factional politics come into play."

President Lee's remarks are interpreted as targeting hardliners within his own political camp who pushed back against government policies during the prosecution reform process.

Regarding the nomination of Kim Ji-yong to head the Major Crimes Investigation Agency, Gyeonggi Province Governor Choo Mi-ae and Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Yong-min, among others, had publicly voiced their opposition.

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