Former Senior Officials from the Korean Foreign Service Issues Statement Critical of the Moon Administration
Here is an excerpt from a joint statement put out by former senior officials of the Korean Foreign Service that was translated by Dr. Tara O:
With massive economic, financial, and technological assistance from our staunch allies, including the United States and Japan, Korea was not only able to quickly rebuild its economy, but concentrate on developing key sectors, such as heavy industry, petrochemicals, construction, shipbuilding, automobiles, and the electronics industry, including semiconductors, to become one of the world’s leading industrial and trade powerhouses.
Strenuously ignoring this proud history of its foundation and the development of the Republic of Korea, President Moon Jae-in continues to threaten the Republic of Korea-U.S. alliance, which has served as the cornerstone of our nation’s development.
The close ties between our two nations is under assault from several fronts, including the transfer of wartime operational control between Korea and the U.S., a lukewarm response to the deployment of THAAD on the peninsula, refusal to take part in the U.S.-led missile defense system, and vacillation over participating in a Korea-U.S.-Japan partnership.
In its foreign policy towards Japan, the Moon administration has adopted the anachronistic stance of treating Japan as if it were still yesterday’s imperialist power, instead of one of today’s important defenders of free democracy and a member of the G7 countries. The Moon administration continuously provokes Japan over emotionally-charged disputes regarding the misfortunes in the history of the two countries, and thereby not only harming our national interests, but earning the reproach of the international community.
Overly conscious of China, the Moon administration has adopted a recalcitrant attitude towards the Korea-U.S. defense partnership, making promises contrary to the Korea-U.S.-Japan alliance and taking an almost servile attitudes towards China, with little regard to our national sovereignty.
On the other hand, the administration is relentlessly extending unrealistic reconciliatory gestures towards North Korea, the very party that has threatened our national foundation and subsequent stable and peaceful economic development.
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I’m going to assume these folks are the equivalent to the US State Dept. diplomatic corps. I admire their condemnation of commie moon pie and his coup government but I worry that will be jailed with the rightful President, President Park Geun-hye
Solid, well-reasoned argument.
However, it’s exactly what the voters chose. And since Moon worked for Roh, they knew exactly what they were going to receive.
Just because it looks like a train wreck to us does not mean it was not deliberate.
South Korean voters are more to blame than Moon, who has always been that way.
Just heard from a friend in Seoul that Moon has made buying and selling real estate more difficult, too…
Commie moon has made all business more difficult with massive amounts of new, burdensome regulation, unnecessary labor laws, and of course the inflated raising of the minimum wage radically out of proportion of the natural labor market.
Drive around any Korean city, all you see are shuttered store fronts and for rent signs. Business is not only stagnate it is recession, soon to be a depression.