With "Lee Jae-myung, obsessed only with pro-Japanese agitation despite security crisis"

"Yoon Administration Should Not Gamble on Resolving the North Korean Nuclear Crisis"

Kim Hee-gon, Deputy Floor Leader of the People Power Party, and Kim Mi-ae, Floor Spokesperson, are responding to reporters' questions after submitting a disciplinary proposal against Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, to the National Assembly's Legislative Affairs Office on the 14th. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwon Hyun-ji] On the 14th, the People Power Party directly criticized the Democratic Party of Korea and party leader Lee Jae-myung regarding North Korea's successive provocations, saying they are "only obsessed with 'pro-Japanese agitation' even in a serious national security crisis."

Kim Mi-ae, the floor spokesperson for the People Power Party, stated in a commentary that "Leader Lee is obsessed with 'pro-Japanese fabrication and agitation' using the South Korea-U.S.-Japan military exercises responding to the North Korean nuclear threat as an excuse," and added, "Changing the description of the waters near Japan to the waters near Dokdo is a very low-level agitation politics that fabricates the symbol of pro-Japanese sentiment." This was a criticism that Leader Lee's recent remarks emphasizing that the South Korea-U.S.-Japan joint military exercises were conducted near Dokdo were intentional.

She further pointed out, "The South Korea-U.S.-Japan military exercises are held in waters 185 km from Dokdo and 120 km from the Japanese mainland, so the accurate expression is that the exercises are conducted in waters near Japan, not near Dokdo."

Spokesperson Kim emphasized, "The Democratic Party, a huge opposition party with 169 seats, only repeats phrases like 'all provocations must stop immediately and return to the dialogue table' or 'dialogue is necessary' despite North Korea's continued nuclear provocations, acting like a 'broken record,'" and added, "If they cannot present realistic solutions to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, they should not throw obstacles in the way of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration's efforts to resolve the crisis."

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