**On the Recommendation for Kim’s Reduced Activities, “Will Avoid Unnecessary External Activities”**
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Young-shin = President Yoon Suk-yeol, in a meeting with the People Power Party’s leader Han Dong-hoon on the 21st, was advised to refresh the personnel associated with First Lady Kim Keon-hee within the presidential office. In response, he stated, “If you convey specifically who is causing what issues, I will review the details and decide on action,” according to a high-level official from the presidential office on the 22nd.
Regarding calls for First Lady Kim Keon-hee to cease her activities, President Yoon said, “My wife is already very tired and struggling. She has lost much of her motivation,” adding, “She is already refraining from external activities. Unless it is absolutely necessary, she will not engage in many external activities.”
On the demand for cooperation in clarifying suspicions regarding Kim, President Yoon reportedly mentioned, “A prosecutorial investigation is already underway, so we need to wait for the results.”
Regarding Myung Tae-kyun, President Yoon mentioned, “Before the presidential election, as soon as Mr. Myung and I met, he advised me to join forces with former Emergency Response Committee Chairman Kim Jong-in,” and added, “It is true that I cut ties with Mr. Myung later on, but it seems my wife (Mrs. Kim) made efforts to reconcile with him differently from me.”
On the appointment of a special inspector, President Yoon referred to the Democratic Party linking the appointment to the recommendation issue for the North Korean Human Rights Foundation directors, stating, “It is a matter to be followed through bipartisan agreement.”
Regarding the opposition’s push for a special prosecutor law, President Yoon expressed, “I’m truly grateful and relieved that our party’s lawmakers have stopped the reckless and unconstitutional special prosecutor law,” and added, “It has been managed well so far, but if our party lawmakers change their minds and take the same stance as the opposition, there’s nothing I can do. I trust our party lawmakers.”