Three members of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK)'s Supreme Council boycotted a council meeting Friday in protest of party leader Kim Min-seok's decision to order an ethics probe into one of the officials over controversial remarks about President Lee Jae Myung. The three officials, who are aligned with former DPK leader Jung Chung-rae, criticized Kim for ordering the party's ethics committee to investigate Rep. Choi Min-hee's remarks suggesting that Lee had opposed former President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment. Choi, along with Reps. Lee Sung-yoon and Han Min-soo, who together make up three of the party's five elected Supreme Council members, skipped the meeting and held a press conference at the National Assembly instead. "It should be Chairman Kim himself who should face an ethics investigation right now," they said. Rep. Choi also came under fire this week for referring to journalists as "a pack of hyenas" in a KakaoTalk group chat. The lawmakers took aim at Kim for raising allegations that anti-Lee party lawmakers had colluded with the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a nonmains