Liberation Day Chairman Kim Won-woong delivers a commemorative speech at the Liberation Day ceremony on the 15th. JTBC Capture
Regarding his controversial Liberation Day commemorative speech on the 17th, Chairman Kim Won-woong said, “Who dares to revise the commemorative speech of the Liberation Chairman?”
On the same day, Chairman Kim appeared on YTN Radio’s ‘New Morning of the Departure of Hwang Bo-seon’ and asked whether there was any request from the Blue House regarding the contents of this commemorative speech. (reporting) is not allowed,” he said.
Chairman Kim said, “When I was preparing the Liberation Day commemorative speech as the 2019 Liberation Chairman, I just refused what the officials of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security said, ‘If you give me the manuscript in advance, I will report it to the Blue House and correct it. , that position has continued to this day.”
“It’s absurd… There was no phone call with Tak Hyun-min.”
Chairman Kim continued, “This year is the corona virus (coronavirus infection) phase, so I received a proposal to record it, and I accepted it.” said
Regarding the claim by some that Tak Hyeon-min, secretary of the Blue House, was at the pre-recording site, he dismissed it as “absolutely absurd”. When asked whether he communicated with Secretary Tak on related matters, he emphasized again, “I have never spoken to Secretary Tak.”
When the conservatives reacted sharply to the definition of the conservative government as a ‘pro-Japanese government’, he said, “It is a denial of pro-Japanese and anti-national power, and it is an argument that the legitimacy of the Republic of Korea should be succeeded to the legal line of the Provisional Government specified in the Constitution.” “Is the legitimacy of the Republic of Korea under the Japanese colonial government of Joseon or the US military?” he asked.
“Park Seon-yup, a Korean War hero? skeptical”
Regarding the late Minister Paik Seon-yup, he pointed out that “Paik Seon-yeop voluntarily served as the advisory chair of the Military Compilation Committee of the Ministry of National Defense for 30 years.” He continued, “I am skeptical of praising Paik Seon-yeop as a ‘Korean War hero’.
Fake independence fighters? “Administrative error… no problem at all”
Regarding the suspicion of some that his mother was a fake independence fighter, he said, “As a result of reviewing the various problems that have been raised recently, I checked with experts, mainly historians, and there was no problem at all.” There was just some misunderstanding. The conclusion is that there were only civil servants who made the records or such administrative errors.”
Previously, Chairman Kim made a controversial speech in the political arena by defining the Syngman Rhee and Geun-hye Rhee regimes as “pro-Japanese regimes” through a video screened commemorative speech at the 76th Liberation Day celebrations attended by President Moon Jae-in on the 15th.
By Han Young-hye, staff reporter han.younghye@joongang.co.kr
