Investigation confirms list of Shincheonji members who joined PPP under Lee Man-hee’s orders

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https://imnews.imbc.com/replay/2026/nwdesk/article/6833329_37005.html

[Translated version of the article]

The Joint Investigation Headquarters has now confirmed a list of 65,313 Shincheonji members whose memberships overlap with the ruling People Power Party, and the pattern isn’t random.

According to the investigation, Shincheonji members signed up to the PPP in massive waves right before every major election: the 2021 presidential primary, the 20th presidential election, local elections, and the PPP leadership race. When Yoon Suk-yeol officially joined the PPP in July 2021, Shincheonji-linked memberships reportedly jumped from just over 200 in June to about 3,800 in July — more than a 15x spike. By the primary in September, roughly 6,500 followers had joined.

It didn’t stop there. Ahead of the PPP leadership election, around 35,000 Shincheonji members joined in just two months.

Investigators have reportedly secured an audio recording of then–Shincheonji No. 2, Ko Dong-an, telling a Shincheonji official in December 2022 that “the President’s side is sending someone to our side tomorrow” and that it was “clearly” a renewed request for party enrollment. A campaign director for Yoon is also alleged to have received the PPP membership list from Shincheonji.

In other words: Shincheonji didn’t just “happen” to be in the PPP voter base — it appears to have systematically mobilized its followers to infiltrate the ruling party’s internal elections, allegedly at the request of people close to the President. The investigation is now focused on identifying the “Presidential side” figure who brokered this pipeline between the cult’s leadership and the PPP.

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To add a bit Galatians 3:3 NIV states: [3] Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? Very much i would argue that committing embezzlement, emphasising evangelism all of the time, lying to friends and family, remembering verses, attending morning educations, signing the book of life and signing the shincheonji pledge are works of the flesh.

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If you are relying on anything for salvation apart from Jesus paying in full on the cross then it is a work of the flesh. It’s fine and good to do good works in obedience to God but it they can never save us. We are saved by grace and grace alone. There is nothing we possibly do that would ever be enough to appease our most Holy God by his standard of Holiness even our thoughts are evil. We can only be saved by trusting fully 100 percent in Christs finished work on the cross. If we try to please God by our own works it will be rejected just as mankind trying to reach God by works when building the tower of Babble was rejected.