"Controversy over Liberation Day remarks" New York Consul General "expressed his resignation last month."

Consul General Kim Eui-hwan of New York, who has been called for the resignation of the opposition due to the so-called "controversy over the Liberation Day remarks," said he had already expressed his resignation last month.Consul General Kim

said in a statement on the 13th local time that he had no choice but to resign as Consul General due to the Democratic Party's unfounded political offensive.

He then argued that it was a novel story about the suspicion raised by some opposition parties that the connection with Kim Gun-hee had an effect on the appointment of consul general, and that he only met three or four times until he was appointed to the United States the following year.

Regarding the announcement of the resignation, an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that it is difficult to comment on the details and that the role of consul general is currently being performed.Consul General Kim

at the Liberation Day celebration held in New York on Aug. 15, saying, "I thought I should sit here listening to a nonsense speech about Lee Jong-chan's Liberation Day speech criticizing the National Foundation Day movement, and later rejected the Democratic Party's request for an apology at a parliamentary audit.