Lee Hoi Chang, the leader of the minority Liberty Forward Party asserted today, “A switch in (the Lee Myung Bak administration’s) policies on North Korea must be definitively achieved so as to fundamentally alter the North Korean system.”
Speaking in a press conference in the National Assembly, Lee said, “We need to use a fierce stick as well as a carrot in order to change North Korea and break away from the relationship in which the South begs, appeals, and observes their atmosphere, as it has been doing for the last decade.”
He added, “We will have to go through a lot of hardships and difficulties in the future in order to reset inter-Korean relations and change the tone of policy on North Korea into one of sincere, peaceful coexistence.”
He continued, “These difficulties such as North Korea’s more aggressive reactions are labor pains, which we have to get through in order to produce genuine peace on the Korean Peninsula.”
Additionally, he criticized opposition parties and pro-Kim Jong Il groups’ attitudes, saying, “Some say that the results of the investigation are debatable. But this is a totally incomprehensible attitude.”
“How can the torn two parts of the ship and the bodies of our sailors be politically misused to gain more votes? It is a really shameful figure of ours, one which has been formed over the last ten years.”
