Uri Party Chairman Speaks Up On MacArthur Statue Debate

This is what the ruling Uri Party Chairman had to say in today’s Chosun Ilbo about the MacArthur statue controversy in Inchon:

Ruling Uri Party chairman Moon Hee-sang said Sunday the dispute over a statue of U.S. general Douglas MacArthur in Incheon was “a clash between civic organizations,” but some media outlets and conservative forces blew it out of proportion for reasons of their own. They “sow distrust and friction between Korea and the United States on the pretext of being concerned about the Korea-U.S. alliance,” he said.

Let me get this right, the people that are trying to tear down the statue and rewrite history are not the ones driving a wedge in the ROK-US alliance? It is in fact the people who are defending the statue that are driving a wedge in the US-ROK alliance. So according to the leader of the ruling Uri Party the conservatives should just let the anti-American hate groups tear down the statue and the US-ROK alliance will be better for it. Is this how I’m supposed to take this comment?