Kim Yong-gap’s fallen, and he can’t get up

Kim Yong-gap

GNP Rep. Kim Yong-gap collapses on the podium while speaking against the abolition of the National Security Law in the National Assembly on Thursday (Yonhap)

Kim Yong-gap, of course, is the lawmaker to whom the Oranckay once referred as the John Birch Society Korea Branch posterboy. What got me about this, however, is that Kim is the one who had been conducting the one-man demonstration in the National Assembly you see below (pic ripped off from OhMyNews):

do or die

The sign basically reads, “I will oppose the abolition of the National Security Law in a do-or-die spirt” (the Korean term gyeolsa means “ready for death”).

And here I was, thinking God was keeping Kim to his word.

Anyway, Kim was five minutes into a speech railing against plans to abolish the National Security Law when he passed out. Right before he collapsed, he said, “North Korea is developing nuclear weapons and going to launch a Rodong missile, yet we’re going to do away with the National Security Law. Mr. President and ruling party, please get your acts together and… (lights out)”

Arch-conservatives should fear not, however — Kim was rushed to the hospital, where MRIs turned up nothing (including, presumably, a conscience).

OhMyNews, of course, has the blow-by-blow account.

13 Comments

  1. WJK your flag
    Posted September 24, 2004 at 9:17 am | Permalink

    Kim won’t really choose death if the choice was handed to him. I’m pretty sure of that. Not having seen the thing in real time nor having read the blow by blow account, I am ready to say with confidence that this is an acting job. Bravo.

    The acting job is stupid, but more stupid is the attempt to get rid of the Bo-Ahn-Bhup. The North didn’t do anything to reduce the security tension. Why should South Korea open itself so that it can be infested with North Korean spies? Really really stupid. It might be too late anyway, though. Your earlier posts hinted that North Korea has enough spies in the South already. All one can do is pray that Kim Jong Il will be overthrown peacefully, and that the North Koreans will come kneeling to the South.

  2. MLS your flag
    Posted September 24, 2004 at 10:04 am | Permalink

    You could have done away with your last comment. Don’t you have a consience? Just wait till the T72s are rolling South, I hope you don’t pass out!

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