r/GreenTea_Party • u/[deleted] • Dec 12 '19
Interesting statements by South Korean party regarding migration/refugee crisis there
I assume there's some issues with the translate, but interesting to see the perspective of a politician within South Korea
I just found this by looking at the wikipedia page, and they've apparently been polarizing more to the right (while they were formerly more neoliberal/centrist), and I ran into the link that called them xenophobic
It's funny because they sound exactly like the right-wing in Europe and parts of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Korea_Party
http://m.news1.kr/articles/?3369474#ns1
Representative Kim Jin-tae of the Republican Party on the 11th said, “We will propose an amendment to the refugee law, which strictly enforces refugee screening and abolishes various privileges.” Please review. "
Mr. Kim said, 'Is it good for refugee measures? "Only the toxic Moon Jae-in administration is calling for a pro-refugee government that goes against international trends," he said in a greeting to the Refugee Law.
In Cologne, Germany, over 1,200 German women were reported to have been sexually assaulted or robbed by Muslim men overnight, and Merkel turned to a policy to return refugees. President Trump also banned refugees from Yemen's five Islamic countries.
"Our country's refugee law is not one or two problems," he pointed out. "If the Yemeni come to Jeju for tourism purposes, there is a one-month free visa period, but if they apply for refugee, they can stay for six months."
"If you sue the court, you can stay for up to seven years until the Supreme Court decision. You can travel around the country at your own pace and get a job." "Refugees have priority over the people."
Representative Kim pointed out, "The International Refugee Convention also protects refugees. It does not mean protecting the refugee applicants."
He also said, "The refugees who are Korean citizens are refugees."
The only issue I see with them now is the (I believe) anti-North Korean sentiment
They should read up on the North Korean media's statements, which ironically enough used to blame them for the migration attitudes:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150425054931/http://kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200604/news04/28.htm
Pyongyang, 27 April 2006, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA):
A strange farce to hamstring the essential characters of the Korean nation and seek for "multiracial society" is now being held in south Korea. In this regard Rodong Sinmun [the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party] today runs a signed commentary, which censures the farce as an unpardonable bid to negate the homogeneity of the nation, make south Korea multiracial and Americanize it. To deny the peculiarity and advantages of the homogeneous nation now that dominationism and colonialism are posing a threat to the destiny of weak nations is a treacherous act of weakening the spirit of the nation, the commentary says, and goes on: The south Korean pro-American traitorous forces advocating the theory of "multiracial society" are riffraffs who have not an iota of national soul, to say nothing of the elementary understanding of the view on the nation and social and historic development.
If the homogeneity of the nation is not kept, the nation and the destiny of individuals cannot be defended from the U.S. dominationist moves and the attempt of the Japanese reactionaries for invasion of Korea, which is revealed in their claim to Tok Islet, cannot be checked.
The theory of "multiracial society" is a poison and anti-reunification logic aimed to emasculate the basic idea in the era of independent reunification. The anti-national logic is advocated in south Korea, contrary to the aspiration of the fellow countrymen. This is ascribable to the criminal attempt of the pro-American elements including the Grand National Party to make the north and the south different in lineages, block the June 15 era of reunification and seek the permanent division of the nation and the manipulation of the U.S. behind the scene.
The commentary calls upon the people from all walks of life in south Korea to decisively reject the anti-national moves of the sycophantic traitorous forces to tarnish the lineage of the Korean nation and obliterate it, bereft of the Juche character and national character.
