[On-Site Video] Kim Min-su: “The Lee Jae-myung administration is a ‘100-shooter’ on security and the economy ... national interests in a bunker”

People Power Party Supreme Council member Kim Min-su criticized President Lee Jae-myung and his government’s foreign and security policy and approach to governing as “submissive and deferential to foreign powers.”
At a Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on the 15th, Supreme Council member Kim said, “In line with President Lee Jae-myung’s remark that ‘we should avoid submissive and deferential attitudes,’ saying nothing to North Korea—which violates South Korean territory and lays mines—and talking about an ‘unfortunate accident’ is itself a submissive attitude.”
He went on to criticize the “practice of keeping quiet about crimes or accidents involving Chinese nationals entering the country visa-free and, furthermore, prioritizing a ‘golf task force’ over people’s livelihoods in anticipation of a meeting with U.S. President Trump. That is precisely what a submissive and deferential attitude looks like.”
While making clear that he was not opposed to golf diplomacy between leaders in itself, Kim pointed out that the government’s priorities had been seriously distorted. “If you hold the office of president, shouldn’t you first set up task forces for stabilizing people’s livelihoods, preventing violent crime, and national security and defense?” he said, criticizing the Democratic Party of Korea’s double standard: “When former President Yoon Suk Yeol played golf for diplomacy, all it did was criticize him, saying he was ‘swinging a golf club instead of working for the country’s future.’”
He added, “As President Lee Jae-myung’s golf game approaches a single-digit handicap—even as he swung a golf club amid a national disaster—the South Korea-U.S. alliance went into a hazard and the national interest fell into a bunker. His golf may improve, but every area of governance under the Lee Jae-myung administration—from foreign affairs and security to the economy and people’s livelihoods—is ultimately no better than the level of a golfer who shoots around 100.”
Finally, Kim called for “devoting at least half as much care to people’s livelihoods, security, national defense, the economy, and the people as is devoted to golf,” and demanded an immediate change in the government’s overall approach.



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