President Yoon Names a New Defense Minister with Strong Anti-Communist Views
President Yoon has named a new Defense Minister among other cabinet positions he announced changes for:
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| People Power Party Rep. Shin Won-sik leaves his office at the National Assembly on Yeouido, Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap |
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday named ruling People Power Party (PPP) lawmaker Shin Won-sik, former culture minister Yoo In-chon and former ruling party emergency committee member Kim Haeng as new defense, culture and family ministers, respectively.
Korea Times
The nominees are familiar faces in Korean politics, with Shin and Yu having the reputations of hardline conservatives. Pundits are saying this is in line with the conservative wing of Yoon, who has been stressing ideology and anti-communism ideas in recent public remarks.
The North Korean regime and the South Korean leftists are really going to dislike Shin as the new Defense Minister since he is pro-strong ROK military and anti-Communist:
Shin is a retired three-star general and former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has been spending most of his military career in key posts. During his discharge ceremony in 2016, Shin said the military should prepare for “unification through northern advancement,” meaning unification through toppling the North Korean regime. (……)
Shin is also one of the first people who triggered the ongoing controversies over assessing independence fighter Hong Beom-do, who was involved with the Soviet Communist Party, spearheading campaigns that resulted in Hong’s bust being removed from the Korean Military Academy.
You can read more at the link.
They can use red-baiting tactics from the 1970s all they want to escape the extremely low popularity and their failing, exasperating policies, but they’re not fooling anybody (other than the 70 to 80-year-olds waving their flags while wailing/screaming that commies have taken over the country). Four more years and a half of these guys are going to be in jail for corruption, negligence, incompetence, and traitorous acts.
It seems GI Korea missed an embarrassing fact that the Defense Minister candidate once stated that “men who haven’t served in the military shouldn’t become President.”
To summarize, if Shin becomes Defense Minister, he is in effect holding the belief that Yoon, his future boss, shouldn’t be President because he didn’t serve in the military, which would be awkward to say the least.
“군미필은 대통령 안 돼” 신원식 과거 발언에, 野 “尹 생각 궁금” | 중앙일보 (joongang.co.kr)
“while wailing/screaming that commies have taken over the country”
Were we in the same Korea during covid?
In my Korea, the government put arbitrary restrictions on small business so it couldn’t survive. Then it gave small business a subsistence subsidy with public funds derived from the labor of others.
That is… well… textbook communism.
What happened in your Korea? Did they remove government barriers to entry for business and disband all the agencies which interfered in consensual economic transactions?
Too many commies, not enough helicopters.
CH, you can’t argue against the bots…They only project, deflect, defame, and pivot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPir-AX2pKo
Setnaffa…
Chinabots, libtards, lefty fairies, etc., don’t exist to argue anything. They have nothing rstional to argue, and lack the skills to argue anything even if they did.
They simply exist to introduce topics for rational people to make intelligent comments on while making their own issues, and lefties in general, look stupid.
A good argument can be made that they don’t exist, and are actually socks of a global right-wing conspiracy to make the left look as dumb as possible.
If that is the plot, it is working.
CH, I think you’ve nailed it.