SEOUL, South Korea—South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denied wrongdoing Thursday in a burgeoning influence-peddling scandal involving him and his wife that’s severely hurting his approval ratings and providing political munition to his rivals.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol fields reporters’ question during a news conference at the Presidential Office in Seoul, South Korea on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.
Asked about his ties with Myung during a press conference Thursday, Yoon said, “I didn’t do anything inappropriate and have nothing to hide regarding Myung Tae-kyun.” In the audio file, Yoon can be heard telling Myung that he asked a PPP committee to pick senior party member Kim Young-sun to run for one of the parliamentary by-elections the following month. Kim Young-sun eventually obtained the party’s nomination and won the election.
Yoon apologized for causing public concerns about him and his wife, but stressed that many of the allegations raised were not consistent with the facts. Yoon said Trump “will be receiving comprehensive reports very soon about how North Korea’s nuclear technologies and capabilities have changed since then.”
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