[News fighting] Kang Seung-gyu said, "Party bulletin board, use of public opinion manipulation..."Making public opinion on the president's attack"

[YTN Radio News Fighting Bae Seunghee]
□ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (07:15 - 09:00)
□ Broadcast date and time: November 14, 2024 (Thursday)
□ Host: Attorney Bae Seung-hee
□ Cast member: Kang Seung-gyu, member of the People's Power

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◆ Attorney Bae Seung-hee (hereinafter referred to as Bae Seung-hee): I'm Bae Seung-hee from News Fighting. The second part starts. President Yoon Suk Yeol is preparing to meet with U.S. President-elect Trump. It's famous for being a golf fanatic. In order to work with Trump, President Yoon is said to have regained his golf club for the first time in eight years. In this regard, let's connect Kang Seung-gyu, a former presidential office member of the People's Power, and talk about it. Are you here?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu, member of the People's Power (hereinafter Kang Seung-gyu): Hello, I'm Kang Seung-gyu.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Yes, nice to meet you.

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: Nice to meet you.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: President Yoon recently practiced golf. The opposition party pointed out that you should study at that time. How do you see this controversy?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: I really don't understand the opposition party's attitude of not prioritizing national interests even in diplomacy. It seems that President Yoon's golf practice is probably for national interest diplomacy with President Trump. Recently, related articles were also reported in the Financial Times. There was also an analysis that countries that succeeded in golf diplomacy, such as former Japanese Prime Minister Abe, Italy, and Scottish leaders, were successful through golf meetings with Trump, while Chancellor Merkel lost some money in this regard. For the national interest, the Trump administration's national priority and various attitudes toward North Korea are not expected to change in international diplomacy in the future.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: That's right.

◇Kang Seung-gyu: The president is also preparing for this change, and if he has to learn golf for his meeting diplomacy with President Trump, he should do it. I also recommended Chung Jin-suk, the presidential chief of staff, to forward related articles and recommend the president to practice golf.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Oh, I see. In fact, didn't President Yoon Suk Yeol sing the American Pi song during President Biden? This time, President Trump seems to be carrying out such diplomacy by showing off his friendliness through golf. Should I say it's a preparation for that?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: That's right. No one believes that the American Pi song really served as a very big foundation for restoring the South Korea-U.S. alliance. If you met with Kim Jong Un during the first Trump administration on new diplomatic relations with the Trump administration, South Korea-U.S. relations for our national interests, and efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons in the midst of global liberal solidarity, don't you think it is very hawkish to see how Kim Jong Un can make a good deal of North Korea's nuclear dismantlement? It's very important right now how we're going to take the Trump administration and the Korea-U.S. relationship through intensive diplomacy in this regard.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Speaking of which, Isn't there Marco Rubio who is expected to be nominated as U.S. Secretary of State? He is known to be a close friend, but he is very determined about North Korea's nuclear weapons. What will happen to your relationship with North Korea in the future?

◇Kang Seung-gyu: Wasn't it by no means tolerating North Korea's nuclear weapons that the Trump administration tried and met with Kim Jong-un during the first term? In the end, I tried through some kind of meeting, summit diplomacy, etc. in that area, but it didn't actually fail. If so, our concern is what the Trump administration should do to effectively dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons program. In the end, it is expected to put pressure on North Korea when looking at Rubio, the candidate for minister, who is in charge of such practical responsibilities. In that regard, the level of pressure could also be another level of pressure from the Biden administration, so now that the state of North Korea's nuclear weapons and various delivery systems are becoming very advanced, so it is very important for the Trump administration to come up with a clue to solve the North Korean nuclear issue.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: I see. And now you're the Secretary of Defense? Hegseth was appointed as the defense minister, who actually supported exchanges with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the withdrawal of U.S. troops. I think that's why it's a little different.

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: There may be many things on the diplomatic line and the diplomatic security line, but there is no guarantee that any remarks or positions that President-elect Trump and his aides have made so far will unfold as they are in the second Trump administration. Since he was elected president, there will be discussions on how to position the U.S. policy position in the current change, and various consultations between South Korea and the U.S. will lead to a big gauge of the Trump administration's policy toward North Korea. We will have to closely observe how the Republic of Korea has taken an effective position in relations with North Korea and how the U.S. will change its position in the Biden administration and as the Trump administration. I think that's our diplomacy, which will proceed before and after the important launch of the second Trump administration.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: So I prepared golf. That's what I'm talking about. As soon as President Yoon's budget bill for next year is completed, it is reported that he plans to start a full-fledged reshuffle. Long-lived ministers for more than two years, including Prime Minister Han Deok-soo, are expected to be targeted. It's a personnel matter, but can you predict it?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: I think it's scheduled to be reshuffled. The answer is how the budget bill will be processed by the end of the year, but the current situation in the National Assembly is not easy. However, if the cabinet reshuffle is made, will Prime Minister Han Deok-soo be included in the cabinet reshuffle? You must have been exhausted, but now the prime minister needs approval from the opposition party, and the prime minister cannot change without consent. However, looking at the current behavior of the opposition party, they will not agree with whom they confirm as an alternative to the prime minister. Then, there will be a gap in state administration. In this regard, Prime Minister Han Deok-soo was also included in the reshuffle last time, but is now maintained like this, and the question will be how this part will be handled this time and whether it can be included in the reshuffle. Second, from the perspective of ministers and these candidates, two things seem to be the focus. One must ensure the continuity of reform, and the other must be careful about the fatigue of reform through personnel reform. In order to harmonize such areas, we need a very suitable person, and it is not easy to find reform-oriented people, right? In addition, there are many candidates who think they are suitable for hearings and things like this, but they do not readily agree to join the Cabinet because they are very burdened with our situation in such hearings. I think these are the key points to watch. I also think that our science and technology industry is undergoing a tremendous paradigm shift, especially in the AI era. So, I think how the president diagnoses and diagnoses the current cabinet and prepares for his successor in related economic ministries and other areas will be a point to watch.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Regarding the Prime Minister. Didn't you say you need to get approval from the opposition party now? In fact, if so, some people came from the opposition party during the presidential election process. For example, there is Chairman Kim Han-gil, or you can recommend a former opposition party member. You're also meeting Daegu Mayor Kim Hong Joon Pyo behind closed doors. Can you predict whether you can become a Hong Joon Pyo mayor within this party?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: Those are all conceivable candidates, and given the current opposition party's rampant impeachment denigrating of the president, any candidate would be quite problematic because the opposition party would be very uncooperative on confirmation. It will not be easy to have a problem. If so, it seems that the president will have a lot of worries before making such a decision.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: It will be difficult even for a former opposition party member. Are you talking about this?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: That seems to be tough, too.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Okay, I got it. The power of the people is ahead of the general meeting of the lawmakers. This special inspector promotion theory is ahead of the general meeting of the members in relation to the promotion, but is the special inspector being promoted at the general meeting of the members?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: Regarding the candidate for the special inspector, the president said at a meeting on the 7th that he would leave it to the party's decision on whether to link it with the recommendation of directors of the North Korean Human Rights Foundation. However, the party's theory has been to link the appointment of a director of the North Korean Human Rights Foundation with the theory of special inspection. I wonder if we alone need to change the part where the opposition party is not moving at all about the director of the North Korean human rights ambassador. So, even if there are some opinions within the party that the special auditor should enter first, and representative Han Dong-hoon, I disagree with what the general meeting will conclude, but we will have to wait and see today. In particular, even if we ask the opposition party to change it in terms of the possibility of restoring some negotiating aspects between the ruling and opposition parties, the question is whether the opposition party will do that now. Even now, the prosecution has a problem, so it introduced an airborne office and set up an airborne office, and asked why they did not appoint a special inspector at the time of the Moon Jae In government, and said it was not necessary because there was an airborne office. But we don't even need an airlift now. I don't need a prosecutor. Rather than a special inspection, we are conducting an independent investigation whenever we ask for an independent investigation. Now, the special prosecutor is actually saying that he will conduct an anomaly special prosecution with a permanent special prosecutor. It's told to introduce a special audit, but what should I say after introducing it? The opposition parties have introduced special investigations that have ignored special inspections, but they will attempt impeachment that has ignored special inspections, prosecutors and Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit, and eventually lead to impeachment that has ignored all these parts. The special inspection team system will end up as just one subject of attack in the opposition party's battle. Then, I have a concern that we need to properly publicize the issue of the appointment of a director of the North Korean human rights ambassador, and that we will fold a card on this issue ourselves.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: I see. Will the People's Power clearly take a position on the Special Prosecutor Act and the Special Prosecutor Act of Kim Gun-hee at the general meeting of lawmakers this time? How will it be decided by party doctrine?

◇Kang Seung-gyu: Didn't the Democratic Party force themselves to pass the Judiciary Committee? On top of that, some ruling party leaders, including Chairman Han Dong-hoon, proposed an amendment called a third-party special prosecutor, which they revised two days before the plenary session. The purpose of the Special Prosecutor's Act is that it is supposed to be formed through bipartisan agreement rather than partisan party politics, as the Special Prosecutor's Office recognizes exceptions from the existing judicial system. That was achieved through an agreement between the ruling and opposition parties, although there was a special prosecution recommended by the party in the impeachment process in 2016. However, from the beginning to the end, the ruling party's unilateral introduction of the independent counsel law cannot be approved by the ruling party or the public. After all, didn't I do that in my close circle? This is flirting with the opposition to the ruling party, shouldn't you have refused like this? In the end, nothing has changed.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: I can't conclude that it's not decided by the budget theory.

◇Kang Seung-gyu: Regardless of whether it is specifically decided by the party's theory, there is no possibility that Kim Gun-hee's special prosecution law will be adopted as such.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Okay. It has been decided not to broadcast the first trial's sentence of violation of the Public Official Election Act. I'll listen to it briefly. What do you think?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: I'm sorry. Representative Lee Jae-myung is one of the most influential politicians now. President Park Geun Hye and former President Lee Myung Bak were guaranteed the public's right to know about such live broadcasts. As a result of the trial against representative Lee Jae-myung, the people want the people's right to know more than anyone else. I'm sorry to hear that.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Yes. Do you expect the guilty?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: I'm sure I'm guilty because it's very clear that violations of election laws and things like this are very legal.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: What if you expect the sentence?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: Isn't this a felony?

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Okay. He said he would come out because it was a serious crime, but he demanded to start an audit of the party while criticism of President Yoon and his wife in the name of representative Han Dong-hoon and his family was posted on the bulletin board of the People's Power Party. How do you see this?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: Even if the party's bulletin board is a real-name system and expressed anonymously, this part is clearly an anonymous expression of the real-name system by the algorithm. It's a very important communication channel, and it's been used to manipulate public opinion by hacking, someone's proxy war, or something. If so, some party leaders explained that this part was not Han Dong-hoon himself, but the wife and her family consistently posted more than 700 malicious comments in a minute, and it seems that this part was used to manipulate public opinion of party members. If that happened on the party's real-name party bulletin board, we should find out what this is and what is true, and we should look into the bulletin board through a party audit. And when you have this problem, it's definitely something that should lead to an investigation, so this is not just a matter to be neglected in this regard.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: The manipulation of party members' opinions has created a public opinion to attack the president. Are you talking about this?

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: That's possible. Looking at the comments, isn't it hard to say that it's such a normal comment?

◆ Bae Seung-hee: You're right.

◇Kang Seung-gyu: If it's a normal comment, the people who expressed it can explain it, and don't you have a lot of suspicions about it now?

◆ Bae Seung-hee: Okay. Anyway, you even talked about thanking me for the party. Thank you for your words today.

◇ Kang Seung-gyu: Yes, thank you.

◆ Bae Seung-hee: It was Kang Seung-gyu, a member of the People's Power.