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the ROK-US joint military exercise scheduled for this month, 74 lawmakers have urged that the exercise be conditionally postponed for the sake of inter-Korean relations. The ruling party leadership is in a position to train in principle, and the opposition party has criticized the demand for training suspension as being ignorant of Kim Yeo-jung.
This is reporter Kang Min-woo.
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74 lawmakers from the Democratic Party, Justice Party, Open Democrat Party, and Basic Income Party issued a statement calling for conditional delay of the ROK-U.S. joint military exercise scheduled to be held on the 16th.
[Seol-hoon / Democratic Party member: Because peace on the Korean Peninsula is much more important than the ROK-U.S. joint exercise… .]
Kim Yo-jong, vice-minister of the North Korean Workers' Party, requested the suspension of the drills, saying that the reason for resuming inter-Korean dialogue was necessary, so that the postponement of the drills should be used as a negotiating card.
However, the Democratic leadership adhered to the position that it should be carried out as scheduled, as it is a ready-made exercise between the ROK-U.S. alliance.
[Song Young-gil / Democratic Party Representative: Kim Yeo-jeong, Vice-Chairman, was talking about it, right? It's not right to postpone for that reason.] The
People's Power also helped CEO Song Young-gil.
[River of China / the national forces hospital spokesperson: Why would you respond to Kim Yo-jong requires non-nationals of the Republic of Korea -
Ministry of Defense today (5 days), even in the Pentagon E. million policy hagetdaneun consider close consultations with various conditions "training needs are There is no change.”
A high-ranking official at the Blue House said, "The meaning of 'many', which President Moon Jae-in has ordered to consider, is to include inter-Korean relations as well as the Corona situation and the issue of the return of wartime operational control. said.
(Video coverage: Park Jin-ho, Kim Seung-tae, Video editing: Kim Jin-won)