President Lee: “Demanding a big position despite not being capable, internal attack in the name of reform”

President Lee Jae-myung said on the 9th, "Pure radicalism is a problem, but it is more problematic to demand a big position when you are not capable, and when you try to do personnel matters and national policy as you wish, and that does not work, you use the cause of radical reform and attack from within."

President Lee made this comment in a post posted on

At the same time, he quoted former Superintendent Cho as saying, "Rather than hitting a comrade for the sake of the revolution, the act of hitting a comrade itself becomes a revolution. When they entrust their bodies and minds to a sacrificial struggle, the fighters were pure themselves, but the gaze of profit, where the revolution becomes a system (power), flows in, and the dynamics of self-politics and self-group politics come into play."

President Lee's message is interpreted as taking into account the opposition of hardliners within the camp to the government's policies during the prosecution reform process.

In particular, regarding the appointment of Kim Ji-yong as the head of the Serious Crimes Investigation Office, Gyeonggi Governor Choo Mi-ae, Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Yong-min, and Gwangju Regional Central Investigation Agency Director Lim Eun-jung also publicly voiced opposition.

During this process, President Lee also expressed his discomfort in an