Ruling Party Attempting to Oust Three Conservative Lawmakers Due to Gwangju Uprising Comments
Just another example that South Korea does not have freedom of speech, especially when the ruling party is looking for anything to deflect attention from their various scandals:
The ruling Democratic Party (DP) and three rival parties said Monday they will seek to punish three lawmakers of the main opposition party over their controversial comments allegedly disparaging a 1980 pro-democracy uprising.
Yonhap
The four parties said they will file a petition against three Liberty Korea Party (LKP) lawmakers with the parliamentary special committee on ethics on Tuesday over their conduct with the goal of stripping them of their parliamentary seats.
Representatives Kim Jin-tae, Lee Jong-myeong and Kim Soon-rye have come under fire for holding a public hearing last week, inviting a far-right figure who has claimed that North Korean troops were involved in the pro-democracy uprising in the southwestern city of Gwangju in 1980.
Two of them also made controversial remarks allegedly disparaging the democracy movement, with one claiming that a riot was turned into a pro-democracy uprising by people with political purposes.
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only the commies in moon’s commie administration won’t admit Kwangju was a communist nK directed and nK led insurgent attack against South Korea.
Flyingsword, I’m not trying to say you’re either wrong or right. But what do you base your assertion that the 518 Gwangju uprising was an NK led insurgent attack against South Korea? Could you please tell me why you think this way?
The popular theory is the rioters were all about voting rights. But it may be worth noting that the “Sunshine Policy” Presidents, Kim DJ and Roh MH–the folks who paid the norks millions to stage fake reunions of desperate old folks–and Moon JI, were all either in jail for being leftists or actively participating in the 518…
Interesting link, not “conservative”: https://www.38north.org/2017/10/tshorrock100317/