President Lee Jae-myung on the 4th said, “Whether from the left or the right, we must be wary of irresponsible extremism wherever it appears,” adding, “Because we must act rather than merely assert, and be accountable for the results.”
President Lee Jae-myung strikes the gavel during a Cabinet meeting at the Blue House on the 29th./Courtesy of News1
That night, the president wrote on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), “All the more so when one is in a position with authority and responsibility,” in a post interpreted as an indirect criticism of hard-liners in the ruling camp who oppose the nomination of Kim Ji-yong as commissioner of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency.
The president said, “Extreme claims that one cannot take responsibility for, and baseless agitation, often stem not from service to the people and the nation but from selfishness aimed at elevating oneself and monopolizing reform achievements.”
He added, “In an age of post-truth, as blind camp confrontation becomes routine and taking sides matters more than truth, declaring, speculating, and agitating without even basic fact-checking can sometimes look like competence.”
The president also said, “As with global trends, our society is seeing the spread, like a fad, of agitation by irresponsible extremists (so-called ‘Mu-geuk faction’) who mislead the public based on lies or without even minimal grounds,” adding, “But in the end, there will be due reversion to a society where reason operates on the basis of facts.”
In addition, the president shared on X a news report that the government succeeded in recovering assets of descendants of pro-Japanese collaborators, saying, “We will thoroughly recover pro-Japanese assets, even if it means expanding personnel, budgets, and organizations.”
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