‘Stop making this about politics,’ says family of man killed by North Korea

The household of Lee Dae-jun, the South Korean fisheries official killed by North Korean troopers in 2020, hit again on the Democratic Celebration of Korea’s declare that the continuing investigations have been a “political vendetta” towards former President Moon Jae-in.

Kwon Younger-mi, the widow of the late official, advised The Korea Herald that she was “cautious of” the opposition lawmakers characterizing the investigations to be about Moon or his administration.

“That is about kids who misplaced their father and the household left behind desirous to know the reality and doing what they’ll to proper any wrongs,” she stated over the telephone.

She stated the opposition celebration was “always politicizing” the truth-searching efforts after the loss of life of her husband. “This isn’t political. A number of the investigations opened after we (the household) filed fees,” she stated.

On experiences Moon was “displeased” with the continuing investigations, she stated she wished to remind him of his letter to her then-teenage son two years in the past, wherein the president stated he would “see to it that the reality is revealed.”

“If President Moon needs justice for him (Lee), who was an official for this nation’s authorities, he has no purpose to not cooperate,” she stated.

Rep. Youn Kun-young, who beforehand served within the Moon administration, stated in an MBC radio interview on Tuesday that the previous president referred to as the Board of Audit and Inspection’s letter requesting a written interview “impolite” and stated that he was “displeased.”

Moon returned the letter as a result of “there is no such thing as a purpose for him to associate with it,” Youn stated. The lawmaker then stated that he suspected Yoon Suk-yeol presidential workplace to be “behind the transfer.”

Democratic Celebration lawmakers staged a protest exterior the state auditors and inspectors’ workplace for the second day on Wednesday, saying they’ve “fallen to turn into instruments for political retaliation.”

In a press release issued on Monday, the Democratic Celebration stated the investigations into Lee’s killing have been the Yoon administration’s “makes an attempt to smear and embarrass” Moon.

Democratic Celebration chair Rep. Lee Jae-myung accused the Yoon administration of “concentrating on the previous president” and “waging a political vendetta, like an authoritarian regime would do.”

“Our celebration won’t stand by it,” he stated.

In a separate assertion on the identical day, 17 Democratic Celebration lawmakers stated the legislation enforcement and state companies have been “abusing their powers to harass the previous administration.” That Moon himself would face investigation was “completely stunning,” they stated.

“Does the Yoon administration need folks to fill the streets with candles of their fingers?” posed Democratic Celebration spokesperson Park Sung-joon, alluding to a sequence of protests that passed off in 2016 and 2017 calling for the impeachment of Park Geun-hye, Moon’s conservative predecessor.

The ruling Individuals Energy Celebration stated in response that the investigative authorities have been “solely doing their jobs,” and that the opposition celebration’s “political maneuvering mustn’t get in the way in which of accountability-seeking within the loss of life of a South Korean citizen.”

By Kim Arin (arin@heraldcorp.com)