Top ruling party officials boycott meeting amid deepening factional rift
Three members of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK)'s Supreme Council boycotted a council meeting Friday in protest of party leader Kim Min-seok's decision to order an ethics probe into one of the officials over controversial remarks about President Lee Jae Myung. The three officials, who are aligned with former DPK leader Jung Chung-rae, criticized Kim for ordering the party's ethics…
Three members of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Supreme Council refused to attend a council meeting on Friday, expressing disagreement with party leader Kim Min-seok's decision to launch an ethics probe into Rep. Choi Min-hee. The dissenting officials, who support former DPK leader Jung Chung-rae, argued that Kim should be the one facing an ethics investigation due to his comments about President Lee Jae Myung's opposition to former President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment.
Choi, along with Reps. Lee Sung-yoon and Han Min-soo, who comprise three of the party's five Supreme Council members, boycotted the meeting and instead held a press conference at the National Assembly. Choi had recently drawn criticism for calling journalists a "pack of hyenas" in a KakaoTalk group chat. The lawmakers aimed their criticism at Kim for alleging collusion between anti-Lee party lawmakers and the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a non-mainstream religious group.
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