Jin Jeong-seok: "Yoon had no involvement in nominations or elections before or after inauguration... No issues with the call"

Jung Jin-seok, Chief Secretary, is seated at the National Assembly Operations Committee's audit on the Presidential Secretariat, National Security Office, and Presidential Security Service held on the 1st in Yeouido, Seoul.
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Jung Jin-seok, Chief of Staff to the President, stated on the 1st that regarding the recording of a phone call between President Yoon Seok-yeol and Myung Tae-gyun, which the Democratic Party of Korea released the day before, "President Yoon has never engaged in illegal activities such as interference in candidate selection or elections before or after his inauguration."

During the National Assembly's Steering Committee audit on the same day, Chief Jung said, "President Yoon has never received any proposals from the party, nor has he been informed of any, and he has never issued any instructions related to candidate selection."

Regarding the call content released the previous day, he pointed out, "Politically, legally, and logically, there is nothing problematic," adding, "It is merely a one-sided political claim by the opposition party that clear evidence proving interference in candidate selection has not been established."

Chief Jung emphasized, "Myung, the voice in the recording, also stated in an interview that 'President Yoon did not interfere in candidate selection or elections at all,' and mentioned that 'the recording seems to have been cut in the middle,' calling it a one-sided claim and issue raised by the Democratic Party."

He added, "It is just a one-sided claim by the opposition party."