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 officials from the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) refused to attend a council meeting on Friday, expressing discontent over party leader Kim Min-seok's decision to initiate an ethics inquiry into one of their ranks. These officials, allied with former DPK leader Jung Chung-rae, lambasted Kim for ordering the party's ethics committee to probe Rep. Choi Min-hee's comments questioning President Lee Jae Myung's support for former President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment.
Choi, alongside Reps. Lee Sung-yoon and Han Min-soo, comprise three of the five elected Supreme Council members who eschewed the meeting and instead convened a press conference at the National Assembly. The dissenting lawmakers contended that party Chairman Kim should be the subject of an ethics probe. Recently, Rep. Choi drew criticism for labeling journalists as "a pack of hyenas" in an internal KakaoTalk chat.
The lawmakers targeted Kim for alleging collusion between anti-Lee party lawmakers and the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a non-mainstream religious group.
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