Tae Young-ho: "Im Jong-seok's Call to Stop Talking About Unification Sprinkles Ashes on the Hopes of Defectors and Separated Families"

"Time to Unite Will for Freedom and Unification Based on Liberal Democracy"

Tae Young-ho, Secretary General of the National Unification Advisory Council, is giving a progress report during a unification dialogue with advisory members from the Americas region of the National Unification Advisory Council held on the 10th at the Grand Walkerhill Seoul in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul.
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Taeyongho, Secretary General of the Democratic Peaceful Unification Advisory Council (Democratic Peace Council), criticized former Presidential Chief of Staff Lim Jong-seok's remarks against unification, saying they poured cold water on North Korean defectors and separated families who have not given up hope.

In a personal statement on the 22nd, Secretary Ta said, "I want to ask how those who have been shouting for unification all their lives until just a few years ago can so easily give up on unification, and whether they truly wished for unification all along."

Ta, a former charg? d'affaires at the North Korean Embassy in the UK, also pointed out that Chairman Kim Jong-un still frequently makes statements about forceful communist unification.

He analyzed that the reason Chairman Kim brought up the 'hostile two-state theory' is due to the influence of the Korean Wave (Hallyu). As the internal situation became so severe that regime maintenance became difficult, he claims Kim decided to sever inter-Korean relations altogether.

He said, "Now that North Korea is advocating the 'hostile two-state theory' and pursuing an anti-unification line, it is rather time for us to firmly unite our will for free unification based on liberal democracy."

Former Chief of Staff Lim, in his keynote speech at the '6th Anniversary of the September 19 Joint Declaration' held at the Kim Dae-jung Convention Center in Gwangju on the 19th, said, "Let's not unify," and "Let's accept the objective reality and recognize two states."

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