Moss Tan, former Ambassador-at-Large for International Criminal Justice, appeared on PenNMike on the 23rd (Korea Standard Time) and emphasized that the South Korean people must fight to restore their electoral sovereignty.

In an interview conducted one day before his scheduled police questioning regarding defamation charges related to his remarks on Lee Jae-myung’s past, former Ambassador Tan stated, "The South Korean people must be able to directly oversee their own elections."

He argued that both tolerating election fraud and transferring the authority of the National Election Commission (NEC) to other departments are "absurd," insisting that "the people must be able to count the votes themselves, verify the results, and monitor the process directly."

He raised his voice, saying, "The South Korean people are sick and tired of the NEC covering up facts, the National Assembly attempting to hide the truth, and a 'fake president' manipulating the situation and trying to sweep it under the rug. Now is the time for the Korean people to rise up and reclaim their right to vote across the entire nation."

Points were also raised regarding numerous indicators of potential election fraud, such as the shortage of ballots at 140 locations, discrepancies between the number of voters counted by hand and those counted by the NEC’s electronic system, and the phenomenon of vote totals decreasing after being disclosed by the NEC.

In particular, former Ambassador Tan mentioned the Chain of Custody (COC). He pointed out that the mere fact that seals were broken is evidence that illegal acts were committed, yet this has been overlooked as if it were trivial, even in situations where footage of seals being broken and ballots being inserted was made public.

For these reasons, former Ambassador Tan emphasized that the Korean people must ensure "transparent elections using same-day voting, hand counting, and paper ballots." He added that fairness must be secured by allowing international election observer groups to investigate the sites and by establishing an election system that can be managed according to the will of the people.

Former Ambassador Tan argued that the National Assembly cannot be relied upon to provide a proper solution, and that citizens must take action themselves.

Furthermore, former Ambassador Tan argued that just as former President Syngman Rhee took responsibility and stepped down for the election fraud of his time—even though he was not directly involved—Lee Jae-myung should also resign, or be impeached if he refuses to step down voluntarily.

Former Ambassador Tan stated that Lee Jae-myung is responsible for the current election situation and that the public must demand his resignation.

He also asserted that the National Assembly should be dissolved as it was formed through fraudulent elections.

Shortly after Ambassador Moss Tan’s remarks, lawyer Kim Jeong-cheol, a former Seoul mayoral candidate for the Reform Party, held a press conference at the National Assembly press center with floor leader Chun Ha-ram to expose the NEC's attempts to destroy evidence.

Reform Party floor leader Chun Ha-ram (left) and June 3rd local election Seoul mayoral candidate Kim Jeong-cheol are holding a press conference at the National Assembly on the 23rd regarding the results of an evidence preservation request filed with the court by the Songpa-gu Election Commission following the ballot shortage incident. At the conference, candidate Kim, who had filed the evidence preservation request with the court, urged, "The NEC hastily shredded the materials without even a handover receipt despite the court's preservation order," and called for a "compulsory investigation into the NEC’s intentional destruction of Jamsil ballot boxes." [Yonhap News] 

Candidate Kim explained that although he had received court approval for his evidence preservation request concerning the ballot boxes, when he contacted the NEC, it was discovered that they had already sent 7,460 kilograms of paper, including those ballot boxes, to a disposal site in Guri-si for "shredding."

The evidence preservation request was filed on June 8, and the shredding took place on the 9th—a measure taken just one day after the request. It was not until the 12th that Judge Kim Ji-yeon of the 51st Civil Division of the Seoul Eastern District Court granted the request.

Observers point out that because only the materials from Seoul's Songpa-gu were singled out and shredded while materials from other regions remained intact, this constitutes the destruction of evidence in violation of the court's preservation order.

Candidate Kim argued that the lack of a handover receipt for the 7.4 tons of shredded materials and the NEC’s response to the court’s document submission order claiming the documents were "non-existent" are grounds for proving intentional destruction of evidence.

The situation inevitably heightens suspicions that evidence of election fraud may have been contained within the Songpa-gu materials.

Although evidence and allegations of election fraud are emerging daily, the police, the NEC, and the National Assembly are focusing only on the ballot shortage incident, effectively ignoring any investigation or probe into the broader election fraud.

Former Ambassador Tan cited the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which South Korea has joined, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which South Korea ratified in 1990. These are legally binding international treaties that recognize the rights to freedom of opinion and expression. Former Ambassador Tan added that these rights are also guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea.

Given this situation, attention is focused on whether a re-election can be held through direct voting and manual counting by the people, as advocated by former Ambassador Tan.

US NNP = Lead Reporter Hong Seong-gu / Special Correspondent for NNP info@newsandpost.com