Lee Hoi Chang, the leader of the minority Liberty Forward Party (LFP) attacked the UN Security Council\u2019s Presidential Statement on the Cheonan incident today, calling it, \u201cA fistfight with the air.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a meeting with the LFP executive, Lee explained, \u201cThe UNSC Presidential Statement deplores the attack and urges someone to take proper, peaceful measures but does not point out who the assailant was or who the someone is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to China and Russia as members of the UN Security Council, they have produced a fruitless and ineffective result. That\u2019s a huge pity,\u201d and added, \u201cThere is no mention at all of any sanctions should a similar problem happen again.\u201d <\/p>\n
Lee also harshly criticized the Lee Myung Bak administration\u2019s diplomatic efforts, saying, \u201cIt is an excuse of the weak to accept the Presidential Statement as an achievement for its diplomacy after failing to point to North Korea as the criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n
He worried that, \u201cThe thing to be most cautious about is that some say we should wrap up the Cheonan incident at this point, since UNSC has produced a Presidential Statement. But if we do that, it will be a complete victory for North Korea, just as the North\u2019s ambassador said immediately after the statement was released.\u201d <\/p>\n
Regarding the issue of the resumption of the Six-Party Talks, Lee claimed, \u201cEven though the thing was ended up in a UNSC Presidential Statement, we have still work to do: to get North Korea\u2019s apology and punishment of the relevant persons. We have to demand these constantly. We must not restart the Six-Party Talks without completing these things.\u201d <\/p>\n
In a meeting of executive members of the Grand National Party on the 9th, lawmaker Hwang Jin Ha said, \u201cThe Cheonan incident is an explicit provocation by North Korea and the international community has a common opinion on countermeasures.\u201d Additionally he emphasized, \u201cThe South\u2019s administration has to do its best to take all kinds of measures to prevent a reoccurrence of similar incidents with the assistance of the international community and the UN.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lee Hoi Chang, the leader of the minority Liberty Forward Party (LFP) attacked the UN Security Council\u2019s Presidential Statement on the Cheonan incident today, calling it, \u201cA fistfight with the air.\u201d In a meeting with the LFP executive, Lee explained, \u201cThe UNSC Presidential Statement deplores the attack and urges someone to take proper, peaceful measures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":12634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n