[YTN Radio News Fighting Bae Seunghee]
□ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (07:15 - 09:00)
□ Broadcast date and time: October 28, 2024 (Monday)
□ Host: Attorney Bae Seung-hee
□ Starter: Park Sun-won, member of the Democratic Party of Korea
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◆ Attorney Bae Seung-hee (hereinafter referred to as Bae Seung-hee): I'm Bae Seung-hee, the news fighting on my way to work. The third part starts. Continuing with the issue interview. Today, we will invite Park Sun-won, a lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Korea, to the studio to talk about news related to North Korea. Hello,
◇ Rep. Park Sun-won of the Democratic Party of Korea (hereinafter referred to as Park Sun-won): Yes, hello. I'm Park Sun-won, a member of the National Assembly in Bupyeong, Incheon.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: There are observations that the North Korean military dispatched to Russia is about to be put into action. By today, 5,000 North Korean troops are expected to gather in the Kurskus region, now known as the battleground. Can you introduce this in detail?
◇ Park Sun-won: As the opposition secretary of the National Assembly Intelligence Committee, I was briefed once on Friday, October 18, and on October 23, the head of the National Intelligence Service came in person to receive the report in considerable detail. From the 13th to the 15th, 1,500 people entered using four Russian transport ships, and another 1,500 people entered between the 19th and the 21st. So on the 23rd, it was just last week. At that time, about 3,000 people started local adaptation training near Vladivostok, and then I heard that they were receiving personal firearms and new military uniforms. So, it takes about 5 days by train to travel from the Russian Far East to Europe and Russia.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: It takes 5 days by train.
◇ Park Sun-won: And the NIS' judgment is that all 1,900 people will not be able to enter until mid-December. So, even if I went to Kursk, I think it's a little too early to put it in now because I have to familiarize myself with the local topography and learn more about the tactics. However, for Russia, there is no reason to slow down the deployment, because it is now a kind of reinforcements. However, it takes a minimum time to prepare, so we are judging that it will be after mid-December.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: Yes. If it becomes faster, as you said, there is no preparation, but if this happens, wouldn't there be a lot of life threats? That
◇ Park Sun-won: There will be a lot of casualties. If that happens, it will be put in and 1,900 people will continue to be put in by December, so wouldn't it be a little difficult to put in the follow-up addition if there are many deaths in advance? So, I think I'll take them all home first, and I'll reinforce the power a little more and put them into the wire.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: I don't think I can put it in right away. That's what you're talking about.
◇ Park Sun-won: Because shouldn't it be important for all 1,900 people to come in now? From Russia's point of view.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: But actually, in North Korea, that's the way it is expressed.There are also reports that the families of North Koreans who have been sent to the military have been quarantined and the families who knew about it are sobbing when it comes to supporting the North Korean military. Why did they purposely hide it?
◇ Park Sun-won: All of a sudden, 1,500 people went in twice without their family knowing, right? Then there are 3,000 people, and it's a special operation unit called the Storm Corps in a unit near Pyongyang. That's why there's a high possibility of rumors inside Pyongyang. That's why some families say they are in quarantine, but rumors are likely to spread in Pyongyang. Then, given the nature of the Kim Jong-un regime, which does not like to distribute any information, I think it is doing some internal crackdown.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: I see. Kim Young-bok, known as one of the close aides of Kim Jong-un in North Korea, is known to have entered Russia. Kim Young-bok is said to be a storm corps of special forces sent to Russia. It is said that he served as the head of this corps and the commander of the Special Operations Force. What do you mean by this?
◇ Park Sun-won: So it is natural in a way that the person in charge is sent to the front line and prepared in advance before going into battle. So now, this storm troop has a total of 42,000. Among them, 1,900 soldiers, the most well-trained, will be sent first, and I think it is natural for them to be at the divisional or brigade level in advance when it comes to putting them in the first stage.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: But why this North Korean army? The Minister of National Defense even used the expression of mercenary, not dispatch, as if he was disguised as a Russian military uniform and controlled by the Russian military. Is there a reason?
◇ Park Sun-won: Korea also dispatched troops to Vietnam in 1965 and to Iraq in 2003
◆ Bae Seunghee: That's right.
◇ Park Sun-won: When we sent troops in 1965, the U.S. paid for all the expenses. When we sent troops to Iraq in 2003, our country paid for all the expenses. I see. Through this dispatch, North Korea will try to extract as much as possible from military, economic, and energy aid. He would have made his own strategic judgment to extract it from Russia and use it as an opportunity to escape from isolation in a way. In that state, they say they will get even one piece of clothing from Russia and put it in, and first of all, there must be a question of who directs it. Since it is the front line of Russia, we judge that it will be subject to primary command and control by Russia.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: But isn't belonging very important when it comes to military war? Even after his death, the Vietnam War was now dispatched as a member of the Korean military. But isn't the North Korean military a member of the Russian military in this war in Ukraine?
◇Park Sun-won: First of all, he wore a Russian uniform and received all his personal firearms from Russia, but on Friday last week, the Russian House of Representatives officially ratified the North Korea-Russia military alliance treaty. Right. So, if you go private until the end, you will be completely disguised as a Russian army under the command and control of the Russian military, and since it has been ratified, the letter may change a little if it is officially announced in early December or at some point.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: I see. These Russian soldiers also called the North Korean military Kade University, ignoring it and expressing dissatisfaction. Why are these reactions coming out?
◇Park Sun-won: Isn't the area called Crosk now the Ukrainian military has entered the Russian territory? That's right. The Russian military couldn't stop it. In that state, there is no doubt that coming in from outside, no matter what the support, special forces, or whatever it is, will hurt your pride. At the same time, regardless of whether it's K-dead or not, we have to distinguish it from the Russian military. So I think I'm going to use those expressions.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: Yes. Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun said that the North Korean military will now be nothing more than a bullet stand. In fact, many people are worried about such human rights issues, and the world is also condemning them, right?
◇ Park Sun-won: Yes, that's right. How
◆ Bae Seunghee: These parts are
◇Park Sun-won: In fact, all the soldiers who are deployed to the front line are actually bulletproof. So the North Korean military's morale in Russia's unscrupulous and misguided war is probably not that high. It also remains to be seen how much it will actually help Russia as a result. It will be quite difficult in that regard. However, any military conflict should be avoided from the lesson that we should now use other people's cases as a profitable stone to look into our cases. And isn't it the last of the soldiers who are being put into the front line? I think it is a matter that we must be careful and deal with very carefully, whether it is North Korea or Russia, to lead them to a situation that may lead to a crisis of the whole country without thinking about them.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: The National Intelligence Service or diplomacy are learning a lot about the North Korean military, but can we say that the actual combat power of the North Korean military is very strong as North Korea is proud of it?
◇ Park Sun-won: So now Kim Jong-un visits this storm troop in August, September, and when you look at the data reported by the Korean Central News Agency, it seems that he has quite a lot of fighting power. However, we do not know that any military has not been put into practice. No matter how good the individual's physical conditions are, it is questionable whether he will be able to demonstrate such combat power if he goes to war at one end of Siberia, which is completely different from the actual battle site. In fact, from our military's point of view, how well North Korea's special forces fight there and what problems they have is something we will keep a close eye on.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: Does the Democratic Party have any plans to issue any statement or position to condemn this?
◇ Park Sun-won: We were informed by the National Intelligence Service on October 18th by phone at 3:30 p.m. Then, the National Intelligence Service released a press release at 6 p.m. on October 18. North Korean troops will be sent to the Russian Far East. Three hours later, at 9 p.m., the Democratic Party of Korea held a meeting to check the state of national security, and there was a clear statement condemning Russia's wrong war and North Korea sending troops here. I also joined the press conference. I see. I came from YTN and reported it. I'm sorry. Let me make it clear that I strongly condemned North Korea's participation in the war before anyone else, even before the Yoon Suk Yeol regime.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: It was also reported on YTN. However, although it is said to be a private conversation between Ki-ho, a member of the People's Assembly, and Shin Eun-sik, the head of the National Security Office, he proposed to use it for psychological warfare by striking North Korean troops if cooperation with Ukraine is possible. There are also people who evaluate it as a conversation between soldiers. What do you think? How did you like it?
◇ Park Sun-won: I think it's a very serious issue. Because the entire text message wasn't taken by the camera, but only a part of it was taken. The content is to bomb and hit with various missiles to cause damage, and then use the result as the subject of psychological warfare from South Korea to North Korea, whether it is a loudspeaker or not. So bombing in front of it means mobilizing fighter jets, doesn't it? Then I'm also training on things like f16. The Ukrainian military is now training the f16 with support from the UK or now the US, but it is a serious problem that can be misunderstood to use fighter jets to bomb and missiles to make a serious blow and then use the result as a material for psychological warfare. So if we want to participate in the war and we want to send our troops and even put fighter missiles to cause casualties and bring the war in the Russian pole to the Seoul armistice line, that can't happen.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: Okay. As the North Korean military's deployment to the front line is imminent, the South Korean government seems to be responding. President Yoon Suk Yeol said, "We are considering whether we can supply weapons of destruction directly to Ukraine." What do you think?
◇ Park Sun-won: It was 2003.Ma
◆ Bae Seung-hee: Yes, I think you'll remember
◇Park Sun-won: Kim Jong-il fled to Samjiyon under Mount Baekdu when Iraq was now under attack from the United States. At the same time, we watched how that situation would affect us. What would happen if 12,000 of North Korea's most powerful special forces were sent to the western front of Russia and continued to be sent? There is a certain gap in military power near Pyongyang. I think so. So North Korea's threat to South Korea is also temporarily weakened. What should we do during that time? We need to keep our security posture in order and keep a close eye on changes in the situation, and be careful not to allow fire and gunpowder on the European front line to move to the Korean Peninsula, and we will provide weapons of murder right away. It's kind of weird to say I won't sit idly by. With the economy struggling, exports to large corporations plummeting, and economic ministers' meeting has not been held properly, and NATO is also cautious not to put its manpower into the war in Ukraine, which is thousands of kilometers away, so I can't help but wonder why we are so excited.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: What are the political intentions?
◇ Park Sun-won: So now, the incompetence of the Yoon Suk Yeol regime and the manipulation of state affairs by First Lady Kim Gun-hee are trying to hide or cover up such things. It is clearly a serious problem that North Korea is participating in Russia right now. It's a major problem, but it's done thousands of kilometers away. And the North Korean military is not heading south, but going far north. It is time to judge and analyze what this situation means and what it means. I won't sit idly by before I do that. I'll respond. I'll send it as a lethal weapon. I don't think it's a time like this.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: The U.S. presidential election is just around the corner. Some people are wondering what the results of the U.S. presidential election will be like with North Korea's dispatch of troops.
◇ Park Sun-won: That's right. So it's two things. One is that the U.S. presidential election will end on November 5, so the president will take office on January 26 next year. That leaves about two and a half months of absence. At this time, will Russia launch a full-scale offensive against Ukraine by mobilizing all the weapons that have not been used so far? If so, North Korea will now intervene more. At the same time, North Korea will also wave a card against the United States that it can conduct new nuclear and missile tests. In that way, depending on the results of the U.S. presidential election, for example, if Trump is elected, isn't Trump talking to Putin and Kim Jong-un? That's right. In that case, the situation can turn around suddenly. What's going to happen? Trump brags about exchanging love letters with Kim Jong Il 23 times. In addition, when he was confident with Putin and when Trump himself was president, Putin did not invade other countries. I'll stop the war. Or if Trump, who wants to stop him, becomes president, there could be some transition before January 26 next year. Otherwise, if Kamala Harris becomes president, the current U.S. security team will continue to support Ukraine, accelerating the new round.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: I see. Then, from the standpoint of our country, who should be elected?
◇Park Sun-won: From our perspective, Harris seems to be a little better economically. I think Trump would be a little better in terms of stabilizing the international situation.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: How can we control the economy only when the international stability situation stabilizes?
◇Park Sun-won: There's something like that.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: Personally, what do you think?
◇Park Sun-won: The United States right now, this Trump is now catching white people, and white people are 60 to 34 percent of all voters. So there's an overwhelming majority of white people. Kamala Harris is considered to be of Indian descent, so even black people are less supportive, and when Biden beat Trump last time, the Democratic Party's invisible organizational power is very strong. So as the votes were counted, Biden beat Trump by a greater margin than expected. So the organization of the Democratic Party and now the white supremacy of the Republican Party is now colliding, and I really don't know where I'm going to win this time.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: I see. I see. Next time, after the U.S. presidential election, please look at the results and predict it again.
◇ Park Sun-won: I'll make a prediction, but it's hard right now.
◆ Bae Seung-hee: I'll make it 50-50 I see. Thank you for your words today. This has been Park Sun-won of the Democratic Party of Korea. Thank you.
◇ Park Sun-won: Thank you.
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