Yoon's Side: "President Moon Trying to Intervene in Presidential Election Through Inter-Korean Talks?"

On the 10th, Won Il-hee Spokesperson: "Blatantly Revealed Intent to Interfere in Election"

President Moon Jae-in (Photo by Yonhap News)

[Asia Economy Reporter Geum Bo-ryeong] Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, criticized President Moon Jae-in, saying he is trying to interfere in the presidential election with a "North-South summit during his term that has no possibility of success."

Won Il-hee, spokesperson for the People Power Party's election campaign headquarters, stated in a commentary on the 10th, "With only three months left in his term, the president linking a highly unlikely North-South summit to the presidential election is nothing more and nothing less than a blatant intention to interfere in the election to extend his regime."

President Moon said in a written interview conducted jointly with seven major domestic and international news agencies on the same day, "The upcoming election period and the election results may create an inappropriate situation for holding a North-South summit."

In response, spokesperson Won said, "It is a shocking remark for a president who should maintain political neutrality ahead of the presidential election to associate such a significant issue as the North-South summit with the presidential election," adding, "After the election, all attention will focus on the winner. What would North Korea gain by holding a summit with a president who has only two months left in office?"

Spokesperson Won also pointed out, "President Moon's remarks openly reveal which candidate he wants to win," and criticized, "It is as if he gave voting instructions to so-called pro-Moon voters who do not support Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, to vote for him."

He then emphasized, "While it is President Moon's freedom to keep dreaming of a North-South summit until the end, he should not even dream of attempting to interfere in the presidential election through such a summit."

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