Jeong Jeomsik: "Not a Special Counsel on Fabricated Indictments but One to Cancel Trials... Lee Jaemyung-Style Linguistic Manipulation"

Opening remarks at a floor strategy meeting on the 6th

Jeong Jeom-sik, floor leader of the People Power Party, said on Nov. 6, “Calling the ‘special counsel to cancel the prosecution’—whose purpose is to eliminate President Lee Jae-myung’s criminal trials—the ‘special counsel on fabricated indictments’ is itself linguistic manipulation that deceives the public.”

At a floor strategy meeting held at the National Assembly that day, Jeong described the “Special Counsel Act on Fabricated Indictments,” which the ruling party had placed before the National Assembly plenary session, as a “special counsel to cancel trials” aimed at nullifying President Lee Jae-myung’s criminal trials, and made the remarks.

“How can indicting someone for making false statements as a crime of making false statements, for inducing perjury as a crime of inducing perjury, and for breach of trust as a crime of breach of trust be called fabricated indictments?” Jeong said. “The very act of claiming that entirely legitimate indictments are fabricated is a distortion of the facts and a manipulation of the truth that misleads the public.”

People Power Party floor leader Jeong Jeom-sik delivers opening remarks at a floor strategy meeting held at the National Assembly on Nov. 6, 2026. Photo by Yoon Dong-ju

In particular, he took issue with the policy and organizational names used by the government and ruling party, criticizing them as “sophisticated linguistic manipulation.” He said, “They call the head of the Public Prosecution Office the prosecutor general, and describe dropping the appeal in the Daejang-dong case as refraining from appealing. Calling a government task force that scrutinizes even public officials’ personal cellphones and PCs the Government Innovation Task Force, and calling a slush fund for the administration to use whenever it wants the Future Response Fund, are also forms of linguistic manipulation.”

He continued, “This special counsel is an outrageous distortion of history aimed at erasing even cases from the Moon Jae-in administration.” Referring to the possibility that the forced repatriation of North Korean fishermen who defected could also be included in the special counsel’s mandate, he said, “They are trying to turn even cases in which guilty verdicts have been handed down into acquittals under the label of fabricated indictments.”

Jeong also took aim at President Lee appearing on a YouTube broadcast the previous day while a filibuster against the bill was underway at the National Assembly plenary session. “While the Democratic Party was engaging in a constitution-destroying parliamentary outrage, the president staged an appearance of communication on YouTube,” he said. “For President Lee, communication is an extension of dictatorship.”

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