President Moon Jae-in has a special conversation with former JTBC anchor Sohn Seok-hee at the Blue House on the 26th. yunhap news
On the 26th, President Moon Jae-in said, “I don’t think it makes much sense” regarding the relocation of President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol’s office to Yongsan. In response to President-elect Yoon’s claim that the Moon Jae-in administration’s efforts to improve inter-Korean relations have failed, he refuted, “Then where did the peace of the past five years go?” He also said to Yoon-elect, “We need to get into presidential mode quickly.”
“It’s really hard to accept” regarding moving the office
In an interview with former anchor Sohn Suk-hee, which aired on the second day on the 26th, President Moon showed his true intentions without reproach. Regarding the dissolution of the Blue House and the relocation of the office by President-elect Yoon, “Without even collecting public opinion on a suitable location, during the regime change when the security crisis is the most escalating, ‘Just get out of the room (Ministry of Defense) and start work’ I think it’s really dangerous to pursue this kind of work.” He said, “It is very difficult to accept the decision and the implementation method of ‘I will not be able to be in the Blue House even for a day’.”
President Moon continued, “As the new government has the will to relocate the office as if it were the No. 1 government task, there might be no major conflict between the old and the old powers. I mightn’t help but do it.” This suggests that approval of government reserve funds for the relocation of the office was ‘unwanted cooperation’.
President-elect Yoon cited the ‘dissolution of the imperial presidential system’ as the justification for moving the office. President Moon was also included in the category of imperial presidents. President Moon said, “Was I the imperial president? Even though I had the authority, I didn’t do the event, so what kind of king are you?” he asked. He said, “In the past authoritarian era, in the legacy of authoritarianism, the president exercised super-legal powers as an imperial president,” he said.
Regarding the abolition of the Ministry of Leisure, “If it had been recklessly reorganized, there would have been a press conference.”
President Moon clearly expressed his opposition to President-elect Yoon’s pledge to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, and this has fueled the theory of power conflicts between the old and the new. President Moon said, “You can’t say, ‘(The next government) will do whatever it wants.’ It is the duty (of the current administration) to say,” he said. He continued, “If (Yoon-elect) recklessly wanted to reorganize the government, I thought that I might have to do it if necessary, even at a press conference, going beyond opposing it.”
“I want to be evaluated fairly” over inter-Korean relations
President Moon put his efforts to improve inter-Korean relations, including promoting the peace process on the Korean Peninsula, but the results did not come as expected because North Korea did not respond. President Moon said, “I and former US President Donald Trump have a fair evaluation in that they resolved the crisis of war on the Korean Peninsula and turned it into a dialogue phase in the midst of repeated North Korean nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches in the early days of the inauguration of the current administration in 2017. I think I should get it.”
Regarding President-elect Yoon’s statement that he would “fix the fuss” regarding North Korea’s ICBM launch while leaving the possibility of a “preemptive strike once morest North Korea” during the presidential election, he said, “It may be a statement from the Ministry of National Defense or the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but it is not appropriate as a statement from a national leader.” President Moon said, “(Yoon-elect) has no experience in dealing with North Korea,” he said.
Regarding President-elect Yoon’s mention of the additional deployment of the high-altitude missile defense system (THAAD), he said, “This is only for election purposes. It would be different if it was president mode.”
“I was loved undeservedly. Thank you very much”
When asked, ‘What kind of president would you like to be remembered as?’ President Moon said, “I would be grateful if you would think of me as ‘I worked hard and suffered’. Even so, it would be the greatest honor if I might be remembered as the president who most successfully overcame the crisis and succeeded in taking off as a leading country,” he said. Thank you very much,” he said goodbye.
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