Foreign Minister Eui-yong Eui-yong answers inquiries at a personnel hearing held at the National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Transportation on the 5th. Newsis
Foreign Minister Eui-yong Eui-yong confronted the opposition party’s criticism that he should be responsible for the failed foreign policy of the Moon Jae-in administration.
On the 5th, at a hearing of candidate Chung of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Transportation Affairs Committee, Rep. Kim Seok-ki said, “A person who is responsible for overseeing failed foreign policy by serving as the head of the National Security Office of the Moon Jae-in administration and special assistant for foreign policy will be appointed as the minister It is very inappropriate.”
Candidate Jung refuted, saying, “I will humbly accept Kim’s prickly criticism on his qualities,” and “I cannot agree to assertively say the government’s foreign policy is a failure.” “Peace on the Korean Peninsula is more common than ever,” he said. “Just because there was no North Korean provocation, we can see how stable our people can live in an atmosphere.”
However, experts believe that it is impossible to accept Chung’s remarks as they are. This is because North Korea did not conduct nuclear tests and test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), but conducted 10 medium- and short-range missile provocations after the inter-Korean summit was held. In 2019, a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) was tested and a closed UN Security Council was held. Last year, inter-Korean relations worsened, and North Korea bombed the Gaeseong Inter-Korean Joint Liaison Office, and our civil servants were killed by North Korean troops in the West Sea.
Candidate Jung also firmly said, “We cannot accept the point that President Moon Jae-in is promoting diplomacy in relation to the political schedule.” The day before the June 13th local election in 2018, the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was held in Singapore.
Candidate Jung said, “There is absolutely no such thing,” he said. “I think these words are very unfairly undermining the various efforts of the government and President Moon Jae-in’s diplomacy for the national interests.”
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