Moon Criticized for "Cold War Mentality"... Hong Jun-pyo Says "People with Pro-North Korea Mindset Are Something"

Former President Moon Jae-in introduced a book by former Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-geon and stated that "many people have not escaped Cold War thinking," to which Hong Joon-pyo, Mayor of Daegu, retorted, "What about people with pro-North Korean thinking?"

On the 3rd, Mayor Hong said through his social media service (SNS), "They ruined national security, made our people slaves to North Korea's nuclear weapons, and is that something to say?"

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Earlier, former President Moon introduced former Vice Minister Choi's book Power of Peace on SNS, saying that under a government where inter-Korean relations are regressing, "Peace has become precarious, and even national income has stagnated or even decreased. Despite such clear contrasts, many people still have not escaped Cold War thinking." This remark by former President Moon is interpreted as a response to recent comments by President Yoon Suk-yeol, who said, "Anti-state forces were singing the song of the declaration of the end of the war," effectively targeting the Moon Jae-in administration.

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