Regarding the Recruitment of Korea Party's Ji Seong-ho... North Korea Says "Not Talent Recruitment but Trash Purchase"

Harsh Criticism of Talent Recruitment from Defectors
"Brutal Human Scum and Criminals"

Liberty Korea Party leader Hwang Kyo-ahn is giving a greeting speech at the Liberty Korea Party's welcome ceremony for newly recruited members held at the National Assembly Members' Office Building on January 8. On the left is Ji Seong-ho, a human rights activist of North Korean defector origin who was recruited to the Liberty Korea Party ahead of the 21st general election.

North Korea fiercely criticized the Liberty Korea Party's recruitment of defector Ji Seong-ho (39) ahead of the April 15 general election, calling it "buying trash, not recruiting talent."

On the 13th, the South Korea-targeted propaganda outlet Uriminzokkiri published an article titled "Buying Trash, Not Recruiting Talent," targeting Ji, claiming, "This guy is a cruel and brutal human scum who drinks excessively and causes disturbances to satisfy his own interests and perverted desires, stealing indiscriminately from both personal and state property, causing social unrest as a gangster and criminal."

This was North Korea's first response about a month after the Liberty Korea Party announced Ji's recruitment on March 8.

Ji is known to have fainted from starvation while trying to steal coal from a freight train in 1996, and was hit by a passing train, resulting in the amputation of his left arm and leg without anesthesia. He later arrived in South Korea after traveling through China and Southeast Asia on crutches.

Uriminzokkiri mentioned this, stating, "Around April 1996, he clung to a moving train to steal state property, fell, and lost his limbs, but unable to slander our Republic, he is now frantically running amok at the forefront of anti-Republic slander propaganda, deceiving hostile forces who are eager to extort even a few more coins from him and raise his own price by fabricating his dirty past."

The personal attacks against Ji did not stop there. Uriminzokkiri criticized, "This guy grew up without envy, benefiting from our Republic's free education and free medical treatment systems, but instead of sweating to repay even a tiny fraction of the love and trust his motherland gave him, he wasted his energy solely satisfying his own indulgence and greed."

They added, "He is a greedy person who would not hesitate to throw away even his own wife for money," and "He frequently beat his wife, and witnesses say his cruelty and brutality were unbearable to watch."

They also claimed that Ji "committed numerous crimes against society and groups, and when he could no longer hold his head high under the bright sky of our Republic, he betrayed the motherland that raised him and abandoned his family to defect to the South in July 2006."

Uriminzokkiri then condemned the Liberty Korea Party's talent recruitment as a whole, saying, "All of the Liberty Korea Party's talent recruits are such human trash and scum."

Additionally, Uriminzokkiri mentioned the Democratic Party of Korea, stating, "There was also a social uproar when the ruling party accepted a second talent recruit who was accused of sexual assault," referring to the 'Me Too controversy' involving Won Jong-geon, who was recruited by the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, North Korea has remained silent regarding the Liberty Korea Party's designation of former North Korean diplomat to the UK, Tae Yong-ho.

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