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Ha Tae-kyung, a member of the People Power Party, said about former President Moon Jae-in's remark on 'Cold War thinking' that "he is still blindly trusting North Korea."

Earlier on the 3rd, former President Moon introduced Professor Choi Jong-geon's book "The Power of Peace" on his Facebook, saying, "There are still many people who have not escaped Cold War thinking."

In an interview with YTN Radio's "News King Park Ji-hoon" on the 5th, Rep. Ha claimed, "North Korea considers even those who implement the Sunshine Policy as proponents of absorption unification," and "In the latter half of former President Moon's term, Minister of Unification Lee In-young tried to provide massive support to North Korea, but North Korea rejected it all."

He added, "Even if we try to provide aid to the North, we can't, and this has been verified over the past 4 to 5 years," saying, "North Korea refuses anything that is Korean-made."

Ha Tae-kyung, member of the People Power Party. [Photo by Yonhap News]

Rep. Ha explained, "Anti-communists beat up the Sunshine Policy, and they dislike those who implement the Sunshine Policy even more because they think it melts away the anti-communism," adding, "They see it as a sly attempt to shake us gently and collapse our system."

Referring to North Korea's rejection of Hyun Jeong-eun, chairwoman of the Hyundai Group's request to visit Mount Kumgang, Rep. Ha criticized, "North Korea should not do that. The Jeong family helped North Korea so much, and this is really a mistake by Kim Jong-un." Starting with the late Jeong Ju-young's cattle drive visit in 1998, Hyundai Group has led cooperative projects such as Mount Kumgang tourism.

He continued, "The Ministry of Unification should become a department that promotes change in North Korea, not a department that flatters North Korea, and the emphasis on North Korean human rights should be increased compared to now," emphasizing, "That can rather accelerate North Korea's change."

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