President Lee Jae-myung criticizes internal attacks justified as radical reform

President Lee Jae-myung criticized people who seek high office despite lacking ability and try to impose their wishes on appointments or national policy. He said that attacking one's own camp under the banner of radical reform after failing to get one's way was more problematic than radicalism pursued out of sincere conviction.

Lee expressed this view on X on the 9th while sharing an essay by former Seoul education superintendent Cho Hee-yeon. The essay analyzed internal divisions around the Democratic Party's convention.

Lee also quoted a passage in which Cho described a situation where attacking comrades becomes a revolution in itself. Cho wrote, in substance, that even if those engaged in self-sacrificing struggle were sincere, an eye for personal gain and individual and group political interests begin to operate once a revolution becomes an established power structure.

Gyeonggi Governor Choo Mi-ae and Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Yong-min were among those who had publicly opposed the nomination of Kim Ji-yong to head the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency.