Lee Jae-myung's Mind Mirrors Kim Jong-un's
Attempting to Block Training for Self-Defense System Against North Korea
Lee's Intentions Questioned: Avoiding 'Judicial Risks'?

Kim Ki-hyun, a member of the People Power Party, is giving a greeting at the "Media, Reform for the Future" Grand Debate held at the National Assembly on the 21st. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

Kim Ki-hyun, a member of the People Power Party, is giving a greeting at the "Media, Reform for the Future" Grand Debate held at the National Assembly on the 21st. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

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[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] Kim Ki-hyun, a member of the People Power Party and a frontrunner for the next party leadership, targeted Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, on the 12th, saying, "I think the foreign media's evaluation calling him 'Kim Jong-un's chief spokesperson' is accurate," and added, "I cannot help but suspect that the Democratic Party is a proxy party of the Workers' Party of Korea."


In a BBS radio interview that day, Kim said, "Why do they keep conducting these counteractions against North Korea? They say, 'Stop it,'" and pointed out, "I use the expression 'sympathy of minds'; I think Lee Jae-myung's mind is Kim Jong-un's mind, and Lee Jae-myung is simply voicing what Kim Jong-un wants to say."


He continued, "I cannot help but doubt whether the Democratic Party is a party of the Republic of Korea or a proxy party of the Workers' Party of Korea," and said, "North Korea is now making laws to use nuclear weapons as a preemptive strike, and in that law, they used the expression of completing territorial unification. Simply put, they have legally declared their intention to use nuclear weapons to achieve communist unification." He added, "To criticize us for conducting training to establish our self-defense system against such North Korea and to tell us not to conduct such training is exactly the kind of thing a proxy of the Workers' Party would do."


He also accused Lee of using national security issues as a political tool to avoid his own 'judicial risks.' Kim said, "In fact, many pieces of evidence are continuously emerging, but because he is afraid, he wants to shift the focus somehow," and added, "There is no power that can overcome the truth. I want to conclude by saying that falsehood cannot defeat the truth."


Regarding Emergency Response Committee Chairman Chung Jin-seok's remark that "The cause of Joseon's downfall lies with the Joseon government. Joseon decayed from within," Kim rebutted, "It seems the Democratic Party deliberately wants to twist this as a controversy over colonial historiography." He explained, "That writing refers to the late Joseon Dynasty, which was desperate to cling to the Qing Dynasty and begged for help, falling into a tributary mindset, treating the Qing as our savior without any self-defense capability. As a result, when the great powers invaded our country, we could not respond, and the Korean Empire Joseon inevitably fell due to internal strife and division."



He added, "Only pigs see pigs," and emphasized, "The Democratic Party regime abandoned our national defense sovereignty with the 'Three No's' policy on THAAD. They have conducted humiliating diplomacy that serves North Korea and China, which can be seen as a revival of tributaryism. We must now break away from this and pursue proud self-defense and confident diplomacy for the Republic of Korea. That is what I want to say."


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