Gominjeong to Yoon: "Repeated Verbal Mistakes... Should Not Bring National Disgrace"

Gominjung "What Matters for the President is Diplomacy... Yoon Seems to Lack a Diplomatic Philosophy"

Ko Min-jung, Member of the Democratic Party of Korea.
[Photo by Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Midam] Go Minjung, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, targeted Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate and former Prosecutor General, on the 29th, saying, "The more he comes out, the more I think real measures are needed."

Go appeared on YTN Radio's 'Hwang Boseon's Start of a New Morning' that day and said, "They say it's a slip of the tongue in some public schedule or place, and it can happen once or twice. But this is not once or twice; it keeps repeating," expressing her opinion.

Listing Yoon's controversial remarks such as "120 hours of work per week," "People without money should be allowed to choose even unsafe food," and "I don't have a house, so I don't have a housing subscription savings account," she criticized, "Is that all? He announced a pledge to demand the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and nuclear sharing in the U.S. We should not disgrace the country..."

She continued, "An American official publicly stated, 'The U.S. policy does not support that pledge,'" adding, "No matter how much he is an opposition candidate, it is very embarrassing to hear such remarks from another country."

Then, Go pointed at Yoon, saying, "Does he really understand the basics of the nation and diplomacy?" and criticized, "Running a country is not just about policies. What is important for a president is diplomacy. He seems to lack any philosophy on that."

Earlier, on the 22nd, Yoon announced 11 major pledges in the field of diplomacy and security at the People Power Party headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, stating that if national safety is threatened, he would strongly demand the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons and nuclear sharing from the U.S..

He plans to establish procedures for consultations on the deployment of nuclear strategic assets such as intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM), and strategic bombers with the U.S., and to regularly conduct nuclear weapons operation exercises.

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