Kim Min-seok says People Power Party's 'reckless filibuster' has crossed into irresponsible agitation

Democratic Party of Korea leader Kim Min-seok said the People Power Party has resorted to "irresponsible agitation" over the special prosecutor act targeting alleged fabricated indictments, even after the bill was revised to address every objection the PPP had raised against it. "The special prosecutor act that passed the National Assembly is a bill from which all the elements the People Power Party used as a pretext to oppose it have been removed," Kim said. "And yet the People Power Party has gone beyond a reckless filibuster to wage street protests, engaging in nothing but irresponsible agitation."

Kim made the remarks Wednesday at a field supreme council meeting held at the Gwangju Assembly of the South Jeolla-Gwangju Integrated Special City, also taking aim at PPP members who have raised the possibility of impeaching President Lee Jae Myung. "What nerve does it take to even mention impeaching the president?" he said. "They need to come to their senses."

Kim said targeted, coercive and fabricated investigations were the true nature of the political prosecutors under the Yoon Suk Yeol administration. "The entire prosecutorial apparatus was mobilized solely to crush one person, and illegal sentence-bargaining was rampant," he said.

He called for a full exposure of what he described as the cunning and malicious fabricated-indictment practices of political prosecutors under the Yoon administration. "The truth behind the political prosecutors' abuses — which sowed the seeds of insurrection — has begun to emerge through the parliamentary investigation, and the special prosecutor must take over and conduct a thorough investigation," he said.

Kim also said the integrated South Jeolla-Gwangju region would open new possibilities for locally driven growth, pledging to review regional priorities during the national budget deliberations for the merged entity to ensure no needs go unmet.

He said the relocation of the Gwangju military airport — directly tied to the development of the Honam semiconductor cluster — was urgent, and vowed to accelerate legislative reforms to ensure the relocation and site development proceed smoothly. He added that he would do his utmost to secure fiscal support so that residents in the southwestern and island regions are not left without access to essential public healthcare.