Ruling party on parliamentary probe into Cho Hee-dae and inquiry into cell phone replacement records: “Like school bullying; they should be expelled”

[Financial News] On the 28th, Chung Jeom-sik, floor leader of the People Power Party, compared to stalking and school bullying the National Assembly’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee checking with telecom companies, at the request of Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Hwang Jeong-a and others, whether Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae had replaced his cell phone.
Chung said this in a social media post: “The ruling party is secretly snooping on personal information without the people concerned even knowing. If they use their power to look into even the Chief Justice’s personal information so arbitrarily, how little must they think of the personal information of ordinary citizens who have no power?”
He criticized the Democratic Party of Korea, saying, “It made Chief Justice Cho sit in the witness seat during a parliamentary audit, prevented him from leaving and confined him to the meeting hall. At a meeting of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee, ruling-party lawmakers hurled all manner of abusive remarks at the Chief Justice. They even went so far as to stalk him, secretly snooping on his personal information as they plotted to humiliate him.”
Chung said, “Now the Democratic Party of Korea says it will conduct a parliamentary investigation into Chief Justice Cho. It will try to subject him to all manner of humiliation and disgrace in front of the public, with the proceedings broadcast live on TV.” He called it “extremely persistent and vicious violence.”
He continued, “Violence doesn’t only mean hitting someone with a fist. Everything the Democratic Party of Korea is doing to Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae now—including confining him, abusing its power, verbal abuse and stalking—is violence.” He claimed that “the National Assembly is perpetrating acts like school bullying, humiliating someone by slapping them and hurling insults in front of the entire student body.”
Chung said, “When school bullying is severe, perpetrators can be expelled. The Democratic Party of Korea, a group of perpetrators bullying Chief Justice Cho, has reached the point where all its members should be expelled from this sacred National Assembly.” He added, “President Lee Jae-myung is acting like a school bully who sits at the back of the classroom, tells another classmate to bully someone and enjoys watching. If he does not stop this outrageous violence, shouldn’t he be expelled from the Blue House?”
He also stressed, “The judiciary, too, should use the powers you have to resist this outrageous tyranny. I urge the resumption of President Lee Jae-myung’s five trials. This resistance is legitimate self-defense.”

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