Yoo Seung-min "Will We Just Stand By as Baekdugongju Insults South Korea?"

Former People Power Party lawmaker Yoo Seung-min is giving a greeting at a press conference held on the morning of November 18 last year at the 'Hope 22' office in the Taeheung Building in front of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim So-young] Former People Power Party lawmaker Yoo Seung-min directly criticized Kim Yo-jong, deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, for harshly condemning President Moon Jae-in as a "U.S.-made parrot" in relation to North Korea's ballistic missile launch, asking, "Will we just stand by and endure the insult to the Baekdu Princess and South Korea?"

On the 30th, Yoo posted on his Facebook, "Kim Yo-jong has once again hurled abusive language at President Moon Jae-in," adding, "She previously insulted him as a 'boiled small brain, a congenital fool,' and today she calls him a 'U.S.-made parrot, shameless, the height of brazenness.'"

He pointed out, "Over the past four years, President Moon Jae-in has taken an excessively high-handed stance toward the people of South Korea, while adopting an excessively submissive attitude toward the Kim siblings of North Korea."

He continued, "Whenever Kim Yo-jong orders, the Democratic Party has enacted the law banning anti-North Korea leaflets, abolished the National Intelligence Service's counterintelligence operations, and even when North Korea blew up the Kaesong Industrial Complex office, shot and burned our citizens, they couldn't utter a single word."

He also strongly criticized, "If North Korea wants, the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises were conducted without proper training, just like computer games, and then ended."

He said, "The Moon Jae-in administration has justified all this kowtowing to the North by claiming it was for North Korea's denuclearization and peace," adding, "But where is that peace? How can the current security situation, where North Korea can take our lives with nuclear missiles whenever it wishes, be called true peace?"

In conclusion, he stated, "A country without the strength and determination to protect itself is not a country. President Moon Jae-in's North Korea 'Moonlight Policy' has ended in failure," urging, "Even during the remaining term, I hope the humiliation will end and a principled North Korea policy based on thorough South Korea-U.S. cooperation will be pursued."

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