Keep the name Im Jong-seok and his background in mind over the next year as South Korea likely moves forward with appeasement Sunshine 2.0 with the Kim regime:
President Moon Jae-in’s chief of staff, Im Jong-seok, left, fires back at opposition lawmaker Jun Hee-kyung, who raised questions about his ideological background. [YONHAP]I knew very little about Im Jong-seok until he became President Moon Jae-in’s chief of staff in May. All I knew was that as president of the National Council of Student Representatives, he served a prison term for orchestrating his fellow student Lim Su-kyung’s unauthorized trip to North Korea in 1989.
The council had been influenced by Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea of self-reliance and supported North Korean ideas like the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea, abolishing the National Security Law and achieving unification with North Korea based on a federal system. Therefore, it might be natural that some people consider the president’s chief of staff as a former Juche activist since he had been the head of a pro-North group. I thought so, too. If the public is wrong, it is up to Im, as a public official and politician, to set the record straight.
It was a surprise to me that Im responded fiercely when Juche was debated during the National Assembly’s audit of the Blue House on Nov. 6. Jun Hee-kyung, a lawmaker from the opposition Liberty Korea Party lawmaker, brought up the issue and said she saw the Blue House being dominated by Juche supporters and National Council of Student Representatives alumni.
The opposition party’s attack might have been expected, but Im questioned Jun’s motivations in the inquiry. “I don’t know how you lived during the Fifth and Sixth Republic juntas when soldiers-turned-politicians infringed democracy,” Im fired back.
But that was it. I wonder why Im let go of such a great opportunity. If he had said, “I never supported Juche and believe in liberal democracy; how can you say I support Kim Il Sung’s philosophy?,” all doubts could be cleared. But he did not.
So I traced his past and found many aspects of an emotional North Korea sympathizer. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
So what we have here is a bit clearer view of what South Korea elected and what they should expect to be defining their future.
May it please God that the commies are blocked from ruining South Korea any further.
J6Junkie
6 years ago
The NORK Manchurian candidates are back in power.
Flyingsword
6 years ago
All Moon’s staff are ardent communist supporters of nK, trained as students during the 80’s they have never denounced any of their communist beliefs…because they all still believe fervently in communism and nK and want nK communism to rule over the entire peninsula.
So what we have here is a bit clearer view of what South Korea elected and what they should expect to be defining their future.
May it please God that the commies are blocked from ruining South Korea any further.
The NORK Manchurian candidates are back in power.
All Moon’s staff are ardent communist supporters of nK, trained as students during the 80’s they have never denounced any of their communist beliefs…because they all still believe fervently in communism and nK and want nK communism to rule over the entire peninsula.