Joo Jin-woo, who reported President Lee, counter-reports... “Spreading false information and making false accusations”

“Joo, falsely slandering the president for political gain… must be severely punished”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Pyeong-cheon = On the 12th, the Democratic Party of Korea counterattacked People Power Party lawmaker Joo Jin-woo, who accused President Lee Jae-myung of leaking official secrets after he took a photo of a confidential document and posted it on X (old Twitter).

The Democratic Party's Legal Committee announced in a press release that day that it had filed a complaint against Rep. Joo to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on charges of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection (defamation), defamation by publishing false information, and making false accusations.

On the 29th of last month, President Lee posted on

The party's legal committee emphasized, "The contents of the report released by President Lee, 'Status of Voice Phishing Damage Reduction,' were contents that could and needed to be made known to the public," and added, "There is no room for disclosing this to constitute a leak of official secrets."

He then claimed, “Congressman Joo took issue with the truncated text at the bottom of the report and spread the false statement that ‘he confessed that he was being reported on the investigation situation by the National Election Commission’s special prosecutor.’” He also claimed, “The content in question is only a report on the security situation at the National Police Agency and has nothing to do with the special prosecutor’s investigation report.”

Rep. Yang Bun-nam, chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee, said, "It is unlikely that a person who served as legal secretary in the Yoon Seok-yeol administration would not know that his claims were false," and urged, "The act of falsely slandering the president and even filing a complaint for political gain must be strictly punished in accordance with laws and principles."