South Korean prosecutors open probe into North's Kim Yo-jong

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Seoul prosecutors have opened an unprecedented probe into North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister over Pyongyang's blowing up of a liaison office last month, officials said.

The move is likely to infuriate the nuclear-armed North, which has repeatedly condemned South Korea in recent months, including directing personal insults at President Moon Jae-in.

Seoul Central District prosecutors received a criminal complaint against Kim Yo-jong from a Seoul-based lawyer and had started an investigation, a spokeswoman told AFP.

Last month, Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border, days after Kim Yo-jong - one of her brother's closest advisers - had said the "useless" property would soon be seen "completely collapsed".

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This is completely contrary to the current elected South Korean administration's policy. It represents the insurgency of the right that has lost legitimacy and power in the eyes of the South Korean public since the impeachment of Park Geun-hye. The right wing Prosecutor Yoon Seok-yeol is the point man for the right in South Korea right now, as the conservative Mi Tong Hap minority party doesn't even participate in the 21st Assembly and is also boycotting the prosecutorial reform measures that became law last spring. The Prosecutor General is the current defacto replacement for the former leading role of the Commander of the Defense Security Command at carrying out its own secret campaigns to undermine democracy in South Korea. Yoon and his surrogates in collusion with the legacy colonial pro-Japanese press and pro-dictatorship aristocracy conducts his own domestic and now anti-unification policies. The insubordinate Prosecutor General is now known in South Korea as the "wild pig of Seocho."

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1. So we know where this is coming from...

Lee Kyung-jae, the lawyer who filed the complaint against Kim Yo Jong. represented Choi Soon-shil, the corrupt aide to president Park Geun-hae. They were tried together during Park's impeachment for corruption and abuse of power.

This lawsuit has international implications, particularly as it is an attempt to make any improvement in North Korean relations impossible.