Yoo Seung-min: "North Korea Will Make More Dangerous Provocations... Is This Peace?"

"Degrading and Submissive Appeasement Policy Toward North Korea Ends in Failure"
"Kaesong Industrial Complex and Kumgangsan Hotel Are Foolish and Absurd Acts"
"Only Strong Sanctions Against North Korea Can Maintain Peace"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] Former Future United Party lawmaker Yoo Seung-min criticized North Korea's demolition of the inter-Korean joint liaison office on the 17th, saying, "The Panmunjom Declaration of April 27, 2018, and the September 19 military agreement of that year have become scraps of paper," and asked, "Is this peace?"

On the same day, Yoo said on Facebook, "From now on, North Korea will continue more dangerous provocations without distinction between land, sea, and air, including the destruction of the Kaesong Industrial Complex and Mount Kumgang facilities, deployment of troops in the Demilitarized Zone, nuclear and missile provocations, the sinking of the Cheonan, and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island."

He pointed out, "This is the result of the endlessly 'servile and submissive' conciliatory policy toward North Korea pursued by President Moon Jae-in and the Democratic Party over the past three years," adding, "The South Korean president was insulted by the North as 'a fool without dignity,' abandoned denuclearization, and effectively made North Korea a nuclear power. That very North Korea policy ended with yesterday's demolition."

He continued, "I have no naive expectation that President Moon and the Democratic Party will come to their senses," and added, "Even now, they are trapped in illusions such as the Panmunjom Declaration's parliamentary ratification, the resolution for a declaration of the end of the war, and the leaflet ban law, saying, 'Isn't it something that they didn't blow it up with artillery?'"

Former lawmaker Yoo emphasized, "Now our people must come to their senses and face reality," and stressed, "North Korea will never give up its completed nuclear missiles, and we must clearly recognize the reality of our security that it will come out with harsher threats and provocations."

Yoo said, "We must realize how foolish and absurd it is to build the liaison office, the Kaesong Industrial Complex, and the Mount Kumgang hotel on North Korean soil with our people's money," and added that the truth that true peace cannot be achieved through servility and submission by endlessly flattering and watching the North's 'supreme dignity,' and that real peace can only be achieved by our own strength, must be understood.

He stated, "Security is a matter of life and death. Isn't it a matter involving the lives of the people and the fate of the nation?" and said, "Now that the fake security and fake peace of the Moon Jae-in administration have been exposed, the people of the Republic of Korea must resolve to eradicate the fake forces and protect the country by their own strength in this time of truth."

Former lawmaker Yoo said, "Only strong sanctions against North Korea and sure retaliation against provocations can protect peace," and added, "When we uphold this principle, the door to dialogue and negotiation toward true peace will open."

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