Hong Jun-pyo: "Sejong City Relocation Theory, a Scheme Targeting Chungcheong Votes... Opposition, How About 'Pyongyang Relocation Theory' This Time?"

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Hong Joon-pyo, former leader of the Liberty Korea Party, criticized the ruling party's discussion on relocating the administrative capital as a "scheme aimed at winning Chungcheong votes" and suggested that the opposition should respond with a 'Pyongyang relocation theory.'

On the 23rd, Hong said on his Facebook, "If we are planning a relocation ahead of unification, the capital should move to Pyongyang after unification, and Seoul should become the economic capital to establish a future strategy for the Korean Peninsula. This is the future vision of a unified Korea."

He explained the historical background, saying, "The reason our people became confined to the Korean Peninsula historically stems from the southward policy of King Jangsu, the 20th ruler of Goguryeo. King Jangsu, who commanded Manchuria and Liaodong, moved the capital from Guknae-seong to Pyongyang-seong as part of his southward policy, which led to our people being confined to the Korean Peninsula. He was the least Goguryeo-like king who failed to inherit the spirit of Goguryeo."

Hong added, "Later, the unification of the Three Kingdoms was achieved by Silla, which was located in the eastern corner of the Korean Peninsula, but our territory became confined to the peninsula. With the reunification under Goryeo, the capital moved to Gaegyeong, and during the Joseon Dynasty, it moved again to Hanyang, where we spent about 600 years in what is now Seoul. Recently, seeing the Democratic Party bring up the Sejong City relocation theory as an election strategy, I couldn't help but think they were doing something absurd again."

He questioned, "I hope our people will no longer be deceived by the Sejong City relocation theory, which is a scheme aimed at winning Chungcheong votes. Moving the capital to the west coast means giving up on unification and choosing to live forever as a divided country, doesn't it?"

Hong concluded, "The grand spirit toward the continent has been abandoned, unification has been given up, and the Sejong City relocation theory, which proposes moving south again, is a wrong policy that does not fit the future strategy of the Korean Peninsula at all. At this point, I thought the opposition should not just oppose the Sejong City relocation theory but respond with a Pyongyang relocation theory after unification."

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