Park Sung-joong "Criticizing Korea's Diplomacy for 15 Minutes but Only Listening... Doubt Lee Jae-myung's Character"

Park Sung-joong, a member of the People Power Party, criticized that Sing Hyang-ming, the Chinese Ambassador to Korea, was criticizing our government's diplomacy for 15 minutes during a dinner with Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, and that Lee just listened, saying, "Lee's character is questionable."

On the 12th, Park said on SBS's 'Kim Tae-hyun's Political Show,' "If you are the leader of the opposition party, diplomacy should be national interest diplomacy regardless of the ruling and opposition parties," expressing this view.

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Ambassador Sing Hyang-ming caused controversy by saying at a dinner with Lee on the 8th that "you will regret if you do not bet on China." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Ambassador Sing, and in response, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also summoned Ambassador Jeong Jae-ho to China.

Park said, "Ambassador Sing crossed the red line. You will regret betting on China's defeat. This is actually close to a threat," and pointed out, "He even gave advice that North Korea's provocations and South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises should be stopped simultaneously, which is a diplomatic outrage beyond mere interference in internal affairs."

He added, "I believe this person violated the protocol of global diplomacy," and "I don't know whether this incident is a matter of China's ‘Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’ or a personal deviation, but it treated South Korea like a marble in a pocket." Wolf Warrior Diplomacy refers to China's unique diplomatic style based on aggressive remarks centered on China.

Park said, "We need to conduct various national interest diplomacy with such a person, but the opposition leader seems to be inciting fights, fostering conflicts, and criticizing the government together, which is really embarrassing and submissive as an opposition leader," and added, "The Chinese ambassador is at the level of a director-general in Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a deputy director-general in China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and bowing to him is truly shameful."

In response to the host's question about whether Lee should have protested Ambassador Sing's remarks, he said, "I'm not saying he should have stopped and protested. If there are facts when such remarks are made, shouldn't he have given advice like, 'Isn't this fact somewhat incorrect?'" and criticized, "(Lee) is the leader of the Korean opposition party, and the other side is just a director-general of a government department. To conduct such a submissive diplomacy with such a person is very embarrassing."

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