Presidential Survey Claims Majority of Koreans Want to Restart Kaesong Industrial Park and Kumgang Tours with North Korea
The responses on these surveys are dependent on what the question is. What do people think the response would have been if they respondents were asked if South Korea should restart the Kaesong Industrial Park and Gumgang Mountain tours if the money is used by North Korea to develop their nuclear and missile programs?:
More than 60 percent of South Koreans are supportive of the resumption of two suspended cross-border projects, saying they could contribute to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a survey of a presidential consultative body showed Tuesday.
Yonhap
According to the survey conducted by the National Unification Advisory Council on 1,000 adults, 62.4 percent said that restarting an industrial park in the North’s border town of Kaesong and a tour program to Mount Kumgang on the North’s east coast will help achieve denuclearization and boost the local economy.
South Korea closed the Kaesong park in 2016 in retaliation for the North’s nuclear and missile provocations. The tour program to Mount Kumgang was halted in 2008, when a South Korean tourist was killed by a North Korean soldier.
Seoul is seeking to resume the two symbolic projects on the belief that more cross-border exchanges could create a peace mood and help move the stalled denuclearization talks forward following last month’s summit breakdown between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Their resumption, however, requires sanctions relief on North Korea and Washington has balked at it, worrying that the global sanctions regime could be undermined at a time when the denuclearization process remains stalemated.
The survey showed 54 percent supported easing sanctions in association with progress in nuclear talks, with 41.6 percent saying that sanctions should remain in place until complete denuclearization.
You can read more at the link, but this is clearly just another attempt by the Moon administration to shape public opinion to support their efforts to restart the two cross border projects. They need the public support in order to pressure the US to allow their “ethnic exemption” to sanctions.
Some good brainwashing by Commie Moon.
Like Stalin said… Moon doesn’t care who votes (or responds to a poll), he cares about who counts the votes (responses).
untrustworthy ally.
Polls are easily manipulated by how the question is stated.
Had a poll show up on my Facebook from Journalist Excellence Worldwide, asking if people would accept $1,000 in Universal Basic Income in exchange for some initial steps for repealing the 2nd Amendment.
The poll came out 95% Pro-2A, 5% Pro-UBI.
They tried to blame it on “Bad Actors,” and tried again on Twitter. It came out 96% Pro-2A, 4% UBI
When they complained about the Bad Actors, I knew they were trying for a pre-chosen result, and were surprised they failed to get there.
The only folks who want Kaesong back without the North taking serious steps to denuclearize are the businesses that depended on the near slave labor rates they got away with paying.
I laughed when I saw the one guy coming south with his merchandise strapped all over the trunk, roof and most of the hood of his car.
Moon must have surveyed all his cronies.