It is said that the new official took office with three fires, but since taking office, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yue has not only failed to "kill the four sides" in the political arena, but has been stumbling and stumbling, and the "dangerous situation" has continued.
A few days ago, the news of retired former President Moon Jae-in's constant harassment at home was repeatedly featured in the South Korean media, to which Yoon Seok-yue's understated sentence "If you don't break the law, it's okay" caused strong dissatisfaction among the South Korean people and made the newly appointed president anxious.
It should be known that Yin Xiyue has only been in office for a month, and he has been caught in two sensational scandals in succession, first the wife's resume was forged and hammered, and then it was unprecedented to salute the American flag, and public opinion was in an uproar for a while. Although South Koreans knew that sooner or later the president, who had vowed to be close to the United States and Japan during the election, would take such a step, he did not expect that the day would come so quickly. Just when the public was worried about what tricks the president would do next, a big problem appeared in front of Yin Xiyue.
On June 8, local time, 80-year-old former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was exposed to the prosecution applying to stop serving his sentence, citing the deterioration of his condition caused by diabetes, and the prosecution will decide after deliberation.
According to South Korean law, a suspended sentence may be imposed when a person serving a sentence becomes seriously ill and finds it difficult to continue serving his sentence. If Lee Myung-bak's illness is true, the suspension of imprisonment is indeed reasonable, but it depends on the intentions of the current president to get out of prison completely.
Recently, there have been calls for amnesty for Lee Myung-bak, but Yin Xiyue reacted coldly to this and directly rejected it with "it is inappropriate to talk about it at this moment", which also caused a wave of public opinion crisis.
Lee Myung-bak belongs to South Korea's conservative camp, and in the eyes of many, he, like Park Geun-hye, deserves amnesty. Although the two have a disgraceful past, they are also part of South Korea's modern history, and the two are old, and if they do have an accident in prison, it will also damage the image of the country.
Before Moon Jae-in pardoned Ms. Park late last year, there were many people calling for The release of Lee Myung-bak and Ms. Park. However, Moon Jae-in, out of many considerations, finally chose to release Park Geun-hye alone, and Lee Myung-bak had to continue his imprisonment. However, when the ball passed to Yin Xiyue, the situation became more complicated.
Unlike Park Geun-hye's "cronies interfering in politics case" that sensationalized South Korea, Lee Myung-bak's charge is "embezzlement and bribery" that is common in South Korean politics. In the final judgment in 2020, Lee Myung-bak was sentenced to 17 years in prison, and for such an old man who is nearly 80 years old, without a presidential amnesty, he is likely to die in prison
In particular, even Moon Jae-in did not pardon Lee Myung-bak, and it was even more difficult for Yoon Seok-yue here. Because the hostility between Lee Myung-bak and Yoon Seok-wook should be stronger than those of Moon Jae-in and Park Geun-hye.
Because it was Yin Seok-yue who sent Lee Myung-bak to prison at the time, when Yoon Seok-yue was only the director of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office, it was precisely because of the "meritorious" trial of Lee Myung-bak that he was appreciated by Moon Jae-in, and he was promoted to prosecutor general in 2019.
And from the current situation, Yin Xiyue himself is not willing to release Lee Myung-bak, but there are people within his party who are pushing for this matter, so the pressure on the new president is not small. Especially after a series of scandals, the dissatisfaction with the new president in South Korean politics has become increasingly fermented, and even party insiders have shaken Yoon Seok-yue to a certain extent.
Today's Yin Xiyue is facing an embarrassing situation of dilemma, whether to pardon Lee Myung-bak has become a test in front of Yin Xiyue, if it is not handled well, what awaits the president is likely to be a situation of total loss.
After all, in the sinister South Korean political arena, a careless person may be "doomed", not to mention a president like Yoon Seok-yue who is only the leader of the United States, and the risk coefficient has exploded.
Text: Ink Words