An side "Pleasure from excretion" Lee Jun-seok "Harsh remarks" ... Sharp tensions after failed unification talks

Tensions Rise After Unification Negotiation Breakdown
Lee Jun-seok: "There Is a Traitor Who First Proposed 'Making Ahn Cheol-soo Quit'"
People's Party: "Reveal Who It Is Immediately... Vague Language and Unreasonable Threats"

Lee Jun-seok, leader of the People Power Party (left), and Ahn Cheol-soo, leader of the People Party. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] Lee Jun-seok, leader of the People Power Party, and the People Party are engaged in a daily war of nerves over the virtually collapsed candidate unification negotiations.

On the morning of the 23rd, Lee appeared on MBC Radio's 'Kim Jong-bae's Focused View' and, when asked about the opposition unification negotiations, said, "People Party officials have made proposals to our side to make candidate Ahn Cheol-soo give up regardless of his intentions," adding, "Now, some people are completely disregarding previous relations and, seeing candidate Ahn act like this, seem flustered and are trying to shift the responsibility onto our side. They should refrain from such remarks."

Lee compared the People Party officials who said they would make Ahn give up to Mi Fang and Fu Shiren, who betrayed Guan Yu, and Fan Jiang and Zhang Dal, who killed Zhang Fei, from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When the host said, "You mean traitors," Lee replied, "Yes, there were people like that."

Lee also disparaged candidate Ahn by calling him a "narrow-minded person." He said, "Our candidate (Yoon Seok-youl) is a magnanimous person. A magnanimous agreement should be made between two magnanimous people, but if a magnanimous person meets a narrow-minded person, it’s infuriating."

In response, candidate Ahn’s side strongly protested, demanding, "Immediately reveal who that official is." Hong Kyung-hee, spokesperson for the People Party’s Central Election Committee, said in a statement, "There is a stage of personality development called the 'anal stage' (9 months to 4 years old) in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory," adding, "It is a stage where pleasure is derived from excretion, and Lee is still stuck in that stage."

Spokesperson Hong said, "It’s truly pitiful that after starting as a 'Park Geun-hye kid' and entering politics 10 years ago, he still derives pleasure from excretion," and urged, "Instead of unnecessary vague language and absurd threats, we hope he immediately reveals who that official is."

She continued, "Not long ago, when the People Party demanded a statement regarding the sexual bribery allegations, he remained silent like a mute who had swallowed honey," adding, "If he closes his mouth and only stirs up smoke again this time, the label of 'boy who cried wolf' will become Lee Jun-seok’s 'hao' (pen name)."

On the 23rd, Lee Jun-seok, the leader of the People Power Party, shared a commentary by Hong Kyung-hee, spokesperson for the People’s Party Central Election Countermeasures Committee, who criticized him, on his Facebook. Photo by Lee, captured from the leader's Facebook page.

In response, Lee shared the full statement on Facebook that day and retorted, "This is a People Party statement, but the abusive language is intense." He said, "Do you know why I said on the 11th that there would be no talk of unification? I have no intention of helping to root out the People Party’s brokers now," adding, "Instead of threatening with defamation, check with your internal People Party personnel and then talk again."

He also criticized, "'Mute who swallowed honey'?disability slurs have become normalized," and urged, "Please revise the statement and apologize."

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