North Korean Missile... Taeyoungho: "A Mad Dog Must Be Beaten with a Stick"

On the 16th, Tae Yong-ho, a former North Korean diplomat and a Supreme Council member of the People Power Party, raised his voice regarding North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch, saying, "The answer to a mad dog is a stick beating." This is an adaptation of a North Korean proverb, "A mad dog needs a stick beating."

Supreme Council member Tae emphasized, "If the North Korean ICBM had fallen over the air route toward Japan where the presidential plane was flying, no one can predict what would have happened," adding, "It is clear to anyone that Kim Jong-un is trying to threaten and intimidate President Yoon Seok-yeol in a gangster-like manner out of anxiety over the improvement of Korea-Japan relations."

Tae Young-ho, the newly appointed Supreme Council member of the People Power Party, is delivering his acceptance speech at the party's 3rd national convention held on the 8th at Kintex in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

He said that Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party, will continue such provocations, and argued, "We must send a strong message that we will conduct missile launch drills if we see signs of Kim Jong-un's private plane taking off. Only then will Kim Jong-un realize how dangerously reckless his actions are."

Kim Byung-min, another Supreme Council member from the same party, pointed out through his social media (SNS), "As the Korea-Japan summit aims to move the two countries toward a future-oriented relationship, North Korea's shameless intention to disrupt this by any means has been fully revealed," adding, "In recent years, North Korea has issued orders to spy groups operating in South Korea to mislead domestic public opinion and to plot the division of our society by engaging in all sorts of dirty acts."

He continued, "However, as domestic public opinion did not move as they wished, North Korea has now raised the level of threat by directly launching missiles, clearly showing the grave security situation on the Korean Peninsula," and said, "President Yoon's visit to Japan should serve as an opportunity to strengthen security cooperation between the two countries to respond strongly to North Korea's provocations."

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