DP slams Yoon’s plan to send monitoring team to Ukraine

Oct 30, 2024, 10:17 am

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Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung

AsiaToday reporter Han Dae-eui

The ruling People Power Party (PPP) criticized the main opposition Democratic Party’s claim that the Yoon Suk-yeol government is trying to plot a war on the Korean Peninsula by taking advantage of the North’s recent dispatch of troops to Russia, calling it “ridiculous.” It seems to be a rebuttal to the DP’s claim that as if the Yoon Suk-yeol government is responsible for the North’s dispatch of troops to Russia, rather than criticizing the North for sending troops.

“The government seems to be planning to send manpower in the name of delegation, but it should never be done,” DP leader Lee Jae-myung said during a high-level party meeting held at the National Assembly on Monday.

“There are doubts that the government is planning a war on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of the North’s dispatch of troops to the Russia-Ukraine war. Looking at the actions so far, it does not seem to be a completely unfounded speculation,” Lee said. “If you provide offensive weapons to other countries’ wars, wouldn’t you be meddling in the war?” Lee criticized the government.

In response, the PPP strongly criticized the DP leader. “Lee made irresponsible remarks,” PPP lawmaker Kwak Kyu-taek said in a telephone interview with AsiaToday. “Of course, we should criticize the North’s dispatch of troops to Russia, but the DP’s claim that the government induced the North to do is absurd,” he said.

Another PPP official said, “The DP’s submissive attitude toward North Korea, which was shown by the previous government, is being repeated again,” adding, “It is unreasonable to blame the government for the Russia and the North’s war of aggression. If you want to defend the North, go to the North.”

PPP floor leader Choo Kyung-ho said the government’s close cooperation with the international community, including NATO, to respond to North Korea’s dispatch to Russia is natural. “What the DP and chairman Lee Jae-myung should condemn is not the Yoon Suk-yeol government, but the Kim Jong-un dictatorship,” Choo said at a parliamentary inspection meeting held at the National Assembly.

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