KCTU on Presidential Impeachment Approval... "Yoon Seok-yeol, Chief of Rebellion, Must Be Arrested"

"Social Reform Through the Power of Citizens"

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) stated on the 14th at the National Assembly regarding the passage of the impeachment motion against President Yoon Seok-yeol, "The ringleader of the insurrection, Yoon Seok-yeol, must be immediately arrested and detained."

Participants are shouting slogans at a rally urging impeachment held on the 14th in front of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, ahead of the second impeachment vote against President Yoon Suk-yeol. Photo by Heo Young-han

In a statement issued that day, the KCTU said, "Chu Kyung-ho, former floor leader of the People Power Party, who premeditated and abetted the insurrection, should be investigated as an accomplice to the insurrection, and preparations should be made to apply for the dissolution of the People Power Party," adding, "The accomplices of the insurrection must be identified and their crimes revealed."

The KCTU stated, "The ringleader of the insurrection was entrenched in the presidency. Even when the police, a state agency, carried search warrants, the Presidential Security Service, also a state agency, blocked them," and added, "There was only chaos and disorder. One disorder has been resolved through impeachment."

The KCTU said, "Impeachment is not the end. We must open a society where the basic labor rights of all workers are guaranteed, including the revision of Articles 2 and 3 of the Labor Union Act and the application of the Labor Standards Act to workplaces with fewer than five employees," and stated, "We must realize a great social reform through the power of workers and citizens who blocked the unconstitutional emergency martial law and opened the square for the impeachment of the insurrectionist Yoon Seok-yeol."