{"id":4150,"date":"2007-05-15T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T02:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.dailynk.com\/en\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:57:47","slug":"the-poor-government-working-to-ple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/the-poor-government-working-to-ple\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Poor Government Working to Please North Korea\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[imText1]On the 14th, former President Kim Young Sam commented, \u201cThe poor government working to please North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the \u201cTongseop politico-economic forum\u201d former President Kim Young Sam said in his speech regarding the South-North bilateral talks and 4 countries\u2019 summit talks, \u201cThe influence of talking has now passed and the possibility rather low. There is no more to say on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Kim expressed, \u201cThe embarrassing thing is that people are going to all these efforts to take photos with not even Kim Jong Il, but his second in charge (Kim Young Nam, chairperson of the Supreme People\u2019s Assembly). I do not understand how South Korean politicians have become like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the case surrounding the Grand National Party, he said, \u201cI believe that all things will be resolved in the end\u201d and urged, \u201cSome people fear that the party will split, but that doesn\u2019t happen easily.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cEvery time there is an election in our country, there is a lot of talk and commotion. 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