refrained from publicly demanding the impeachment -- or resignation -- of President Park, fearing that such a radical approach would cause backlash among the general voters.



But most recently -- as the president appears to maintain her grip on state affairs by nominating the prime minister and Cabinet members -- Moon has adopted a more assertive tone. He said that unless the president backs down, he would make an “important decision,” alluding to a push for Park’s resignation.



Former People’s Party leader Ahn and Seoul Mayor Park, on the other hand, were among the first politicians to demand the ousting of the president.



The central-left politicians said President Park has lost the “authority and ability” to act as commander in chief and that political confusion caused by a power vacuum couldA colleague of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak said on Tuesday that he believed the slain reporter was the target of organized crime. Tom Nicholson said that before his death Kuciak had been about to publish an explosive report about ties between the Italian mafia and high-level politicians.

According to Nicholson, who worked closely with Kuciak, the 27-year-old was working on a story about "the fraudulent payment of European Union transfer funds to Italian nationals resident in Slovakia with alleged ties to the 'Ndrangheta organized crime group from Italy's Calabria region."

"The (Slovak) secret service already has the gangsters' names; both Jan and I were operating from leaked intelligence documents," Nicholson wrote in Politico.

"Slovak organised crime has never killed reporters, even in the bad old days. Whereas Italy's mafia gangs have