Minster Chung’s Loyalties Are Beyond Question

Via Yonhap:

SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) — A member of South Korea’s main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) on Thursday denounced the government and its unification minister, claiming they are working to aid the country’s main enemy, North Korea.

Rep. Kim Yong-kap stopped only short of accusing Unification Minister Chung Dong-young of treason, claiming the minister has been working to meet what he claimed to be unreasonable demands of the North since taking office in June 2004.

“Ever since Chung Dong-young became the unification minister, he has been anxious to comply with every demand by the North,” the GNP legislator said in a statement.

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“And now they say they will send a delegation to congratulate the foundation of our main enemy. It would be better to say that Chung is a unification minister of the North Korean Workers’ Party instead of a unification minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea),” he added.

I feel a responsibility to correct Kim’s misstatement: Chung is actually the Minister for Southern Affairs, and Pyongyang has no basis whatsoever to question his loyalty. Hopefully, this baseless slander will be corrected in the Rodong Sinmun in short order.

“The government says it will repatriate long-term prisoners back to the North unconditionally when the North has yet to make a single response to our demands to send back South Korean prisoners of war and abduction victims,” said Kim.

Yawwwwwwwn. Why can’t some people see the obvious progress they’re impeding and step out of the way? Why, as we speak, a South Korean delegation is on the way to tour North Korea’s largest cold-storage meat locker (also known as Kim Il Sung’s tomb). Let’s not get caught up in bickering and arguing about who violated this armistice or that, who gassed whose kids, who killed whose babies, and who abandoned who to enemy captivity for the rest of their natural lives. The fact is, Minister Chung’s loyalties are beyond question.