Jo Kyung-tae: "Do we treat our people like objects for the North... Apologize to the medical community"

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Regarding the bill being prepared to allow our medical personnel, mainly from the ruling party, to be dispatched to North Korea, Rep. Cho Kyung-tae of the United Future Party strongly criticized it, saying it is "the Moon Jae-in government treating our citizens as commodities for North Korea."

On the 31st, Rep. Cho said on Facebook, "Offer a sincere apology to the medical community that has volunteered to resolve the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus infection) crisis."

He stated, "The ruling party and government are treating our country's medical personnel not as citizens but as disaster management 'resources,' and have proposed and are pushing a bill to dispatch medical personnel to North Korea as 'emergency support.' Although the Moon Jae-in government has been providing full support to North Korea, as North Korea has launched harsh criticism against President Moon Jae-in and inter-Korean relations have rather become strained, this impatience is leading to reckless legislation."

Rep. Cho pointed out, "Along with the reckless promotion of establishing a public medical school, which has caused massive opposition from the medical community, this legislative act pours cold water on a situation where active cooperation from the medical community is needed due to the COVID-19 crisis. I, as a citizen, feel anger at the Moon Jae-in government's policy that treats the medical community, who have been devoted to medical activities day and night for about eight months since the COVID-19 crisis began in January, as mere consumables."

He said, "Our medical personnel are our citizens who have devoted themselves to saving a country terrified by COVID-19. Withdraw immediately the 'deterioration' that explicitly allows treating our medical personnel as consumables and sending them to North Korea."

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