The president of Open Radio for North Korea, Ha Tae Kyung, has called upon Unified Progressive Party candidate Lee Seok Gi to clarify his past activities as part of the National Democratic Revolutionary Party (known as ‘Minhyeokdang’ in Korean).
Standing for the conservative Saenuri Party in ‘Haeundae-Gijang’, a ward in northeast Busan, Ha commented on a PBC Radio program this morning, “If (candidate Lee Seok Gi) is going to be the no. 2 proportional representation candidate for his party then he must clearly publicize what he thinks of his past career. When the election is finished, there will be public questions about what opinions these people now have.”
“There used to be the underground People’s Democratic Revolutionary Party, which had direct connections to North Korea, and he was the committee chairman for it in South Gyeonggi Province,” Ha explained, going on, “(The People’s Democratic Revolutionary Party incident) happened in the late 90s and early 2000s, but if they say he is the no. 2 proportional representation candidate then that is at the forefront (of the United Progressive Party), and so he must make public what he thinks of his past career.”
“As far as I know, there are more than five active organizers with past links to North Korea among the candidates (for the United Progressive Party),” Ha, who was himself a radical leftist in the 90s, added, although he declined to identify them.
