South Korea’s Moon Faces Barrage of Scandal Questions Ahead of Elections
- President’s new year’s briefing dominated by controversies
- Prosecution ‘acting on authority that exceeds law,’ Moon says
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in faced a barrage of questions about purges of prosecutors looking into corruption in his administration, in the latest sign that the scandals could weigh on upcoming national elections.
At a new year’s news conference Tuesday -- typically one of the presidency’s biggest annual media events -- Moon defended his administration’s decision last week to reassign three prosecutors working on probes that had embarrassed the government. He deflected questions about whether the man overseeing the investigations, Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl, still had his confidence.