Han Dong-hun's hand phone- an encryption problem or political problem?

Jang Yong-jin TV Midnight News reports* that Han Dong-hun's handphone which is likely to reveal communications between presidential candidtate Yoon Seok-yeol's wife and his right hand prosecutor (and alleged political fixer) has not yet been sent to Israel for password decryption because of "technical problems." The prosecution offices investigating the so called Channel A News scandal have stalled the investigation. In the case, one of the Channel A reporters, Lee Dong-jae, recruited by Han, allegedly attempted to inveigle a prisoner convicted of financial crimes to incriminate former democratic minister and political pundit Yoo Shi-min. Reporter Jang alleges that this is a political problem rather than a technical problem in the current Prosecutor General's office. The investigating prosecutors had nolle prossed the case against Lee, but a final disposition awaits the forensic examination of Han's phone. Prosecutor General Kim Oh-soo, who succeeded presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol to the office, has the political "noon chi" ( 눈치 ) or sense to know the evidence on Han's phone is likely to adversely affect Yoon's campaign for the presidential office.

*For any officials or reporters looking at this, here's the original video title from youtube, if you want to examine its contents: [장용진TV/오밤중NEWS] 한동훈 핸드폰 포렌식, 왜 중단됐나? / 김만배, 윤석열 보낼 카드는 뭐? Streamed live on Feb 2, 2022; For the opposite political take on the Channel A News "matter," see:
검찰, 한동훈 폰 포렌식 중단… 이스라엘에 안보냈다 Munhwa Ilbo Dec. 30, 2021; http://www.munhwa.com/news/view.html?no=2021123001070903347001


Why does the current Minister of Justice, Park Beom-kye, tolerate this stalling tactic by the prosecutor general? Jang Yong-jin says that Park is calculating his own individual political advantage rather than acting as a part of the democratic administration that appointed him. Virtually all the pending or potential criminal investigations and current litigation related to Yoon Seok-yeol, his family, or his political victims, have been determined, reversed, delayed, or otherwise politically neutralized in light of the presidential political campaign of Yoon Seok-yeol. South Korea's prosecutors, investigators, judges and other officials, public and private, fear the political retribution of Yoon Seok-yeol, should his network of chaebol (corporate magnates), mainstream media, and prosecutors, judges and other officials achieve unchallengeable power as a result of the upcoming March 9 presidential elections. It's a potential dictatorship in the making. Those who undertake judicial, investigative, or administrative measures now that would potentially be seen by the vindictive Yoon and his wife as threatening their power, will experience retribution from their political machine metastasizing within the administration of justice and the conservative mainstream, Cho-Joong-Dong media cartels. The electoral process in South Korea is to that extent already seriously corrupted.

It's important to note that discussion of this political problem in South Korea is not some "conspiracy theory." A record of Han Dong-hun's discussions with the Channel A reporter (a Dong A media property) was already disclosed in independent media. Subsequently, the courts threw out the seizure of the reporter's phone claiming it was unlawfully executed. Compare this to the treatment of the illegal seizure of professor Chung Kyung-shim's personal computer by the courts which was seized from a secured storage area on campus in a successful effort to depose the reform minded former Justice Minister Cho Guk by indicting his wife. This process against Cho Guk's family was instigated while Yoon was prosecutor general. Also, in her recent "7 hours" plus of recorded phone conversations, Yoon's wife, Kim Gon-hee, disclosed her vindictive nature and desire to seek revenge on critics and opponents, should she "gain power." She offered to make the reporter "her person" by paying him one hundred million won. She also admitted to the interviewing reporter that she spoke to prosecutor Han Dong-hun often.

For background on the Channel A News Scandal:

South Korea's Press-Prosecution Collusion Scandal: the audio transcript, July 23, 2020;
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2020/07/south-koreas-press-prosecution.html

Seoul Judge Cancels Lee Dong-jae Search Warrant, July 26, 2020;
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2020/07/south-koreas-press-prosecution.html

South Korea: Press- Prosecution collusion affair- the cast, August 3, 2020;
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2020/08/south-korea-press-prosecution-collusion.html

See also:

Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol suspended for 2 months by Discipline Committee, Dec. 15, 2020;
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2020/12/prosecutor-general-yoon-seok-yeol.html
Yoon obtained an injunction to block the disciplinary sanctions against him. Later, an appellate review court, dismissed the injunction as without merit, found the supporting evidencee sufficient to support the sanctions, and commented that the findings were sufficient to support Yoon's dismissal from office rather than just a suspension. This was the second displinary measure taken against Yoon in his legal career. The first was orchestrated by Hwang Kyo-ahn to defuse accusations by Jang Dae-tek that Yoon had interfered in investigation of alleged perjury, forgery and fraud on the court by his mother in law in earlier litigation which resulted in Jang, her former business partner, being imprisoned in connection with a business dispute. Choi Eun-soon, Yoon's mother in law, allegedly unlawfully took Jang's investment, worth in excess of two million dollars. Yoon's wife in the "7 hours" recordings referred to Jang as a "dangerous person."

South Korea: Civil "lawfare" continues in the Administration of Justice, Feb. 7, 2021;
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2021/02/south-korea-civil-lawfare-continues-in.html
The blog has over a dozen articles related to former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol and the political corruption in the administration of justice in South Korea posted since March 2020.

South Korea's Top Prosecutor Embroiled in Family Scandals, March 15, 2020;
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2020/03/is-yoon-seok-yeol-obstructing.html
법꾸라지- "Legal eel," 법률 과 미꾸라지, a new word formation reflecting the joinder of related persons, information and knowledge, conjoining legal power and skill in use against public order maneuvering like an eel to skillfully screen the persons involved and elude the punishment provided by law. (original source in hangul, Naver.com)