North Korea apparently isn’t fond of the Grand National Party:
In a briefing on Saturday in Pyongyang in commemoration of the June 10 anti-Japanese demonstrations at the Central Workers’ Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea, Ahn Kyung-ho, director of the Secretariat at the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (CPRF), claimed that if the Grand National Party (GNP) takes power in South Korea, inter-Korean exchange and cooperation will come to a rupture and the whole nation will go down in flames of war.
Oh my, that truly is frightening.
Director Ahn said, “If the GNP comes to power, the June 15 Joint Statement will be reduced to nothing, with the roads between Pyongyang and Seoul and the path to Mt. Geumgang being blocked; the construction of the Gaesong Industrial Complex will be completely suspended, and the whole nation will go down in flames of war ignited by the United States.”
Translation: If the GNP comes to power, we’ll seize your investments and sell the country out to the Chinese instead.
Coincidentally, Ahn will head North Korea’s civilian delegation to the June 15 Grand National Unification Festival in Gwangju on June 14-17.
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Despite the rosiest fairy tale scenarios of the sunshine policy or the beliefs of people like Bruce Cumings, it’s obvious that the present regime in NK will never be trustworthy enough for much foreign investment to enter the country. Who in their right mind would want to take a chance that the scumbags wouldn’t just slam the door shut at any moment? Again, for all the money and goodies Roh and his cronies have given the fat dwarf, what have they gained besides a handful of family reunions? These guys are probably about the most untrustworthy bunch of any country in the world, so I can’t see them turning things around any time soon and going the China route.
I’d really love to see North Korea get serious about reunification. I’d hope that those countries responsible for the split of the country, Japan, China, and Russia, take a lead role in this effort. It worked in China, Vietnam and Germany, it CAN work in Korea too.
At the very least, Korean men wouldn’t have to go outside of Korea to find wives anylonger. Hahaha, an official Korean gov’t warning NOT to marry Korean men.
But seriously, those people that are now very elderly deserve to see their relatives before they pass on, or at least mourn their deaths by visiting their gravesites. After all it’s not their fault Korea’s geography lands them in the middle of most Asian conflicts/wars.
–Remort
From hearing S Korea’s recent unification ministers, I just assumed all unification ministers (North and South) were supposed to be the bend-over type. Hmm, I guess I was wrong.
Just another example of the Norks rattling sabres in order to scare people in South Korea into voting for the pro-north candidates. Of course, the fact that they do this pretty much every election cycle doesn’t do much for their already non-existant credibility.
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[...] And to think that if the head of the North Korean delegation North Korean Committee for the Peaceful Unification chief An Kyong-ho is to be taken at his word, all this (paid for by the South Korean taxpayer) will all be a thing of the past if the Grand National Party retakes power. Perish the thought. [...]
[...] Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok did tell North Korean delegation head An Kyong-ho that his comments about the Grand National Party were inappropriate. The GNP is demanding a public apology, while the Unification Ministry has expressed regret over North Korea’s meddling in South Korean affairs. Lee also warned An that the South had lost quite a bit of patience with Pyongyang stalling over trial runs of intra-Korean rail service. [...]