Cho Kuk, a scandal-tainted former justice minister who recently launched a new political party, said Tuesday the party will propose a special counsel investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol and ruling People Power Party (PPP) leader Han Dong-hoon after a new National Assembly comes into office.
Cho Kuk, a former justice minister during the previous liberal Moon Jae-in administration, announced his bid to create a party and run in the April 10 general elections, despite concerns that his move may aggravate factional infighting in the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK).
Prosecutors questioned a former chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office on Friday as part of an investigation into alleged irregularities involving the justice ministry s 2020 inspection of then Prosecutor General Yoon Suk-yeol.