Christ, is this the best Cheong Wa Dae could do?
And in other personnel moves, a friend of outgoing Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok will be taking over NIS (oh boy!), Gen. Kim Jang-su (strangely, a rational human being) will take over as defense minister and, as expected, Song Min-soon will assume the foreign minister’s position.
Now let the fun begin!
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“He helped found the governing Uri Party, but was briefly detained early 2004 on suspicions of receiving illegal campaign funds in the lead up to the 2002 presidential election, in which the Millennium Democratic Party candidate Roh Moo-hyun was elected president.
He was convicted and sentenced to a one-year jail term, but was released on three-years of probation.” Real man of the cloth there. All that’s missing is the news he buggered a few altar boys.
Roh has to get a lackey to head the NIS to get the spy scandal investigation squashed.
/shudder
Man, when will this end?
This is embarrassing for South Korea. 노무한 indeed!
Lee Jongsuck as the head of NIS. His name says it all. It is like appointing a child-molester to be in charge of an elementary school.
“북한 경제는 살아날 가망이 없다. 원료도 없고 전력도 없으니 생산이 있을 리 없다. 그래서 김정일 집단이 살아남을 수 있는 유일한 길은 남한을 통째로 깔고 앉는 것이라고 믿고 있다” - The only way for NK to survive is to take over SK. (a quote from NK refugee)
And, Lee will open up the floodgate and receive NK terrorists with open arm. All in the name of “Blood Brothers”.
They will kill his family first.
Lee Jongsuck is a Commie.
Song Minsoon is a Commie.
You still wonder about Rho Muhyen?
@baduk: Lee Jong-Seok will not lead the NIS; his friend will, not that it will make much difference anyway… sigh…
I just hope the ongoing investigation on North Korea spies will not be hindered by the change of boss.
“Christ, is this the best Cheong Wa Dae could do?”
Did you seriously expect anything different out of Roh and the Urinal Party? I sure didn’t.
-Tony
Rob,
The link you gave says that the new NIS director is Kim Man-bok, a career spook (OK a career pencil pusher directing spooks).
Uh-oh, I think Bukhansan is about to shake to its foundation because I think Roh did pretty well here. Two out of three cabinate picks are guys in the business rather than the hack Roh often promotes.
On the other hand, a guy who is buddies with the agency he is regulating is not always a good thing, especially in defense (civilian control of the military and all that).
Choe Sang Hun wrote an nice article that covers this topic. It is a pity he did not talk about the unification jail-bird preacher though.
The quotes therein are like such: