Without the fake report by JTBC, Impeachment could not have happened

Source:  http://www.mediawatch.kr/news/article.html?no=251307  (Column by Media Watch.  Media Watch's been doggedly investigating and exposing all the fabricated news reported by JTBC.)

JTBC should be punished severely for its fabricated report before the final ruling by the Constitutional Court is made and before the end of February when the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC) finalizes its decision on approving the renewal of their license.

On 24^th October last year, SOHN Seok Hee of JTBC released a sensational report that more than 200 classified state secret documents had been found on CHOI Soon-sil’s Tablet PC, including the texts of speech delivered by President PARK Geun-hye  at Dresden in March 2014, and that CHOI Soon-sil had obtained the texts in advance and revised them herself with underlining in red.

This report greatly shocked the public, even the support groups of President PARK, for this could be suggesting that a mere housekeeping woman  taking care of President’s garments had access to state classified documents and touched the speech texts dealing with Korea’s unification policy, which could be interpreted that CHOI virtually ruled the nation. Since then the whole of media, not to speak of JTBC, floated around gossips that CHOI Soon-sil is the real president of Korea behind the scene. In consequence of disappointment with President PARK by her supporting quarters, her approval rating dropped dramatically to less than 5%. PARK could not help being bombarded helplessly.

2 days later, this led the Prosecution to search K Foundation and MIR Foundation offices concerned and arrest two top secretaries of the Blue House, JUNG Ho-sung and AN Jong Beom in charge of economy, widely known as close to President PARK. President PARK, who was denied a chance to clarify, was driven to a corner and forced to offer a compromise plan of her early retirement in April.

After all, on 9^th December, an impeachment motion was passed by 234 votes of parliamentarians in favour of the motion on the grounds that the affairs of state had been compromised by CHOI, and that 77. 4 billion won had been collected through her for K and MIR foundations from large conglomerates including Samsung.

It was on the morning of the 8^th December, just a day before voting for Impeachment in the Assembly that the report of ‘Tablet PC’ by JTBC, the very starting source of the impeachment, had been confirmed as a fake. Some articles were carried in the newspapers calling for postponing the Impeachment procedures until the suspicion surrounding the Tablet PC would be cleared. 

Mr PARK Jong Hwa, chairman of United Patriotic Groups, made a statement calling for immediate suspension of Impeachment steps owing to the report of the Tablet PC being found fake. However, SOHN Seok-hee of JTBC, gave his first speech on air to clarify the contention of fabrication unilaterally that evening. The new founding was not convincing enough as to prevent the impeachment from being passed. However, SON’s first clarifying speech was also found as fabricated two days later, but the disclosure was made 2 days after the impeachment had been passed.

Following the feature article of JTBC Tablet , Mr DO Tae-woo, a member of The Allied Lawyers for Freedom and Unification (자유와통일을향한변호사연대), made a legal interpretation about the case that if the JTBC report of Tablet PC itself, which made possible the search of K and M foundation and arrest of JUNG Ho-sung and AN Jong-beom, could be found as fabricated, all the other proofs and evidences obtained on the basis of that report would lose legal validity, which could lead inevitably to invalidating the impeachment passed. 

Apart from this kind of legal interpretation, if there had been no fabricated report of Tablet PC by JTBC, the impeachment would have been out of the question, for the base of assertions would be made void that the state policies of diplomacy and national security were compromised by CHOI Soon-sil. The assertions made supporters of PARK withdraw their support from her. Then the indiscriminate search and arrest by the prosecution would not have been possible and approval ratings of President would not have dropped to a level of 5%. Non-mainstreamers, so called Non PARK faction, such as KIM Mu-seong, YOO Seung-min would not have supported the impeachment motion. Without their support, the impeachment could not have been passed.

As a result of dismissal by the Court of the Special Prosecution’s request to arrest Mr LEE Jae-yong, the vice-president of Samsung Group, President PARK was relieved of the charge of bribe taking.

JUNG Ho –sung, former secretary, testified as a witness at the trial by Constitutional Court that the assertion was not true that CHOI Soon-sil had interfered with the affairs of state. His testimony proved the allegation untrue.

Watching the case in the right perspective except the faked report by JTBC, we come to know that President PARK has established a public foundation for common good with the help from the big companies to advance the cause of culture and sports industry, and that CHOI Soon-sil tried to meddle in the affairs, but failed.

We remember well what happened in the previous leftist regimes: under KIM dae-jung’ rule, Hyundai Group was made to donate $450 million dollars in cash to then KIM Jeong-il regime of North Korea and in return Hyundai received benefits of 20 trillion won from the government. In the course, the those in power received hundreds of millions of money as bribe; under NOH Mu-hyun regime, the government received 800 billion won from President LEE Gun-hee of Samsung Group in return for favourable handling of the  case so called Samsung X File. They directly got the foundation under control and shared the benefits among them. Try to compare them with this case.

As examples of the manipulations of Tablet PC by JTBC as well as by Special Prosecution have been disclosed, the main forces who led the impeachment motion have invented excuses saying that Tablet PC is not the essence of the impeachment. On the very day of Impeachment, SON Seok-hee of JTBC, made brazen-faced remarks that the impeachment did not even Tablet PC.

If the manipulation of Tablet PC were not connected with the impeachment, the truth of the case should be brought to light regardless of the impeachment. But it is strange that the main streams advocating for the impeachment including the opposition party and Non-PARK faction of the ruling party such as KIM Mu-seong, YOO Seung-min as well as the prosecution and Special Prosecution are reluctant to clarify the truth of the case. The prosecution and special prosecution would rather seem to conceal the case of Tablet PC and the Constitutional Court would not bring the case of Tablet PC into the agenda of the trial.

Could it be that they fear of possibility for their Babel Tower of strenuous efforts to make the impeachment successful would be collapsed in a second, which they well know would happen? The truth is that the manipulation of Tablet PC by JTBC was not only the beginning of the impeachment, but also the very essence of the impeachment. 

If it is the case, the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC)  should impose disciplinary punishment on JTBC for its fake report without conditions before the Constitutional Court rules the final decision. In particular, the Constitutional Court hastens its hearings by holding sessions 3 times a week, which is super speed, saying the case of impeachment is crucially important. But KCSC has postponed its deliberation of JTBC case, making an absurd statement that the importance of the case has necessitated the postponement. But in fact they breach the rule of handling the case within 30 days of the request made.   

 Citizens are having a protest at the KCSC building.   "Impose disciplinary punishment on JTBC for fabricating news report."

A Buddhist Nun Got Ripped Off in Public by the Police.

If KCSC should not make a definite announcement to punish JTBC  far before the end of February, the deadline of deliberation of renewal of license and before the final ruling is made by the Constitutional Court, the Exposing Committee on Manipulated Tablet PC (태블릿 PC 조작 진실 규명 위원회) has decided to bring a legal action to Yangcheon Police Station against PARK Hyo-jong, the chairman of KCSC, KIM Seong-muk, vice-chairman, JANG Nak-in, a committee member, HUH Eui-do, secretary general, KIM In-gon, radio section chief, OH In-hee, team chief for delinquency of duties by deferring the processing deliberately to help JTBC get the approval of the renewal, with reference to the impeachment of President PARK.

Park Hyo-jong, the chairman of Korea Communication Standards Commission

             

                  Exposing Committee on Manipulated Tablet PC, launched on the 10th January 2017.


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Pyeon Hee-Jae (CEO,Media Watch) is explaining of how JTBC manufactured Tablet PC.  How JTBC planted files into an empty Tablet PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBbzd8M3vRY 


A Buddhist Nun Got Ripped Off in Public by the Police in Korea. Korean media isn't reporting this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHnuYmn7L1c (TMT News - English)


History of South Korean President Park Geun-Hye's Impeachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIgDJqG8L_g (TMT News - English)


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