Park Choong-kwon "與 lawmakers gather at official residence to prevent the execution of illegal arrest warrants"

[YTN radio news fighting]

□ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (07:15-09:00)
□ Broadcast date and time: January 7, 2025 (Tue)
□ Host: Kim Woo-sung PD
□ Cast: Park Chung-kwon, member of the People's Power,

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◆ Kim Woo-sung PD (hereinafter Kim Woo-sung): Yes, the most important value of democracy is diversity. It's a lot of voices that cheer up. There are lawmakers with various voices within the power of the people, right? This is a graduate of engineering. He majored in very difficult and complex engineering, but he is also engaged in political activities and was born in North Korea. He is also a proud Korean citizen. We invited Park Chung-kwon to the studio of the People's Power. Please come in.

◇ Park Chung-kwon, Member of the People's Power (hereinafter referred to as Park Chung-kwon): Hello.

◆ Kim Woosung: The explanation was a bit long, right?

◇ Park Chung-kwon: Oh, thank you.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: In the past, when I used to express mixed race, for example, I was negative, but now I'm positive. have two nationalities There is a positive expression that says, "I've had two countries." I'm going to ask you a bit of a broad story today, but the first story is North Korea's missile provocation. In the morning, they said they succeeded, saying that they successfully fired hypersonic missiles and intermediate-range ballistic missiles using carbon-related materials, but I'm curious about what this is. You're also a related engineering student, so please explain it.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: Yes, first of all, hypersonic missiles have the characteristic of low flight altitude and that it is virtually impossible to intercept them because the warhead operates anomalously.

◆ [Kim Woo-sung] It's hard to get hit.

◇ Park Chung-kwon: Yes, but according to what North Korea announced during the test this time, it flew about 1,500 kilometers and the highest altitude is about 100 kilometers very low. So far, these are the most advanced things that North Korea has tested in terms of flight specifications.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: Technically ahead of you?

◇ Park Chung-kwon: Yes, I think I can say that. This was the first time North Korea began to show up in December 2021 during the Moon Jae In government, but it was at a very crude level at that time. Now, more than three years later, it's showing quite a lot of progress, and the flight speed was about Mach 12 when I first tested it. So, it's about 12, but if it's like this, if you're flying within 100km to 1500km, that means you're continuing to fly in the atmosphere for the duration of that flight. If this happens, the frictional heat will be the largest. That means using a special carbon material means that the warhead has to withstand the frictional heat for that long. When we talk about North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missiles, don't we often talk about whether the atmospheric reentry technology is complete or not? So far, there have been talks that there is still a lot of lack of it, but North Korea's saying that it used a special carbon material means that we even have ICBM's atmosphere re-entry technology.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: We don't have any questions prepared in advance, but the relationship between North Korea and Russia is very strange right now. Well, we've even gone to the military alliance, but I don't think it'll be easy to develop such technology on its own. Did you get some help from Russia?

◇ Park Chung-kwon: We can't rule out that possibility. This is because North Korea has a long history of developing carbon composite materials.

◆ [Kim Woosung] I see.

◇ Park Chung-kwon: It started almost around the same time as our country, or it started a bit earlier. Because it was 2005 when I was in college in North Korea. I already saw the carbon composite material prototype at that time. However, this material manufacturing industry takes a lot of equipment. If the equipment is equipped with the latest equipment, it can produce better quality products, and there may be a slight possibility that such equipment was provided by Russia.

◆ [Kim Woo-sung] So this is a show of force against the United States and against the Republic of Korea. It's the way I've always done it. It's a strategy to negotiate what you want after threatening like this, but we'll watch and talk about how to respond and the Korea-U.S. alliance is still strong. I need to see the domestic political situation, but many people were surprised at the emergency martial law. In fact, there seems to be quite a lot of negative views within the party over this emergency martial law. There seems to be a view that the emergency martial law itself was a little unreasonable, but I'm curious. How did North Koreans and people like Park Chung-kwon from North Korea see the emergency martial law? I'm curious.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: First of all, North Korean defectors are not only interested in liberal democracy but also have a high interest in liberal democracy while living in Korean society, so I think there are many parts that you think are wrong about this as your understanding of the system increases a little quickly. However, in the case of North Koreans living in North Korea, it can be viewed from a different perspective. It is not familiar, but it seems to be divided into three categories, but those who are against the North Korean system must have been very jealous. Isn't this the key point? That is why the president is chosen by the people. And if the elected president does well, he can support it more and if he can't, he can impeach it with the hands of the people. I think this is the ideal system they want the most, and secondly, most ordinary people in North Korea will be. It's a phenomenon that most ordinary people in North Korea have never imagined in their lives. You can choose the president by the people's hand? You can impeach them with the hands of the people? It's a very surprising thing.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: It's a country where leaders have been set even before they were born.

◇ Park Chung-kwon: Yes, that's right. And it's very, very, very privileged in North Korea. People who are loyal to the so-called Kim Jong-un regime and enjoy wealth by serving in that system. They're kind of close allies. You might think it's a little pathetic. North Korea is a country where Kim Jong-un can do everything he wants, but you might think it's pathetic to see that South Korea is a society where the president can be impeached helplessly if he does something wrong.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: You don't have the image of a strong leader. I'm saying that you can see it like this. Inside the North, we always mentioned it for the purpose of criticism when something happens to us, but of course, there are countless times when our soldiers are being killed in the war in Ukraine, but we don't mention it at all. So far

◇ Park Chung-kwon: As I said earlier, the biggest problem with North Korea is that it is the most difficult situation to prevent North Koreans from changing their consciousness.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: Is it going to get stuck? K-pop K-drama is already in it.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: Yes. Since the Korean Wave is so prevalent throughout North Korea, didn't you make three laws? All three of the laws themselves made it possible to prevent the Korean Wave.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: If it were Korea, they would be unconstitutional.

◇ Park Chung-kwon: Right, they're unconstitutional laws. Even though it violates human rights severely, it has even created and controlled such laws, and when I showed you the current political situation in Korea, as I said earlier, it's really like that with the hands of the people. State power comes from the people after all. And isn't there a scene of impeachment rallies and pro- and anti-impeachment rallies that North Koreans are very afraid of finding out that the country is doing well and not doing well in power? In other words, if the people want, they can hold a rally where they can freely express their will. And they are too afraid for North Koreans to find out about the advanced Korean society reflected at the rally site.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: I also did a unification program in 2023. We have a former film director here. If you watch the movie Parasite from North Korea, what do North Koreans think about North Koreans? But they have a toilet even though they are so poor? You're so poor, but you're holding your phone? As you said, it is rather difficult for the people to freely participate in the assembly and be known about these things.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: If I add one more thing, haven't we had mad cow protests in the past? At that time, North Koreans were thinking about what they were thinking when they saw through the Rodong Sinmun. No, that country is protesting over whether they will get sick or not in 30 years after eating beef, but we think that there is no beef to eat even if we die tomorrow.

◆ [Kim Woo-sung] We've seen some differences in perception. It is also a part that needs to be narrowed down a little bit for peace in the future. Now, I'm going to ask you about the political situation, but you went to the front of your official residence yesterday. I drew the line, saying that what I went to is the opinion of individual lawmakers. Spokesperson Shin Dong-wook. I think you should tell me how you got there. He was in front of his residence.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: First of all, I personally think about 44 people have left now, and I think each person's motive for coming is a little different. But I must prevent the nation's constitutional order and judicial system from collapsing further. That's what I'm thinking now. Because now, the impeachment has completely collapsed our country and is almost anarchic, right? In the meantime, even the Constitutional Court and the judiciary, which are supposed to support some kind of reckless liberal democratic constitutional order, are not following the judicial process of the bill. So I'm going now. So isn't it the same for the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit? The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit does not have the right to investigate the rebellion against the president, does it? Many people are well aware of this and the arrest warrant must be issued by the Seoul District Court in the Western District Court

◆ Kim Woo-sung : Central District Court as Western District Court

◇ Park Chung-kwon: That's right. I did some kind of warrant shopping at the court, where there was a judge from our law research group. And the warrant arrest warrant itself was an arrest warrant issued unconstitutionally and illegally through a super-legal act that applied exceptions to Articles 110 and 111 of the Criminal Act. This should be prevented from being enforced. I will tell you that I went to show you that we should never commit unconstitutional violations in its execution, no matter how confused we are in the political situation and how much public opinion impeaching the president.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: Even if there is a majority of people in favor of impeachment, he said that if there is an unfairness in the process or a violation of the process, he went to block it. Kim Jae-seop is a young member of the party with a similar age. I expressed that I would be overpaid for three days, but I think I'm saying this because I'm worried about the situation where a lot of the middle class is leaving.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: However, if you look at the results of recent polls, the president's approval rating and the people's approval rating are now rising. I think that over time since the impeachment, the people have been so surprised and afraid of impeachment at first, and the emergency martial law and, oh, really, fear that our liberal democratic system is under this threat. However, as time goes by, the public is now paying attention to the fact that if this martial law is not something that the president is acting irrationally, why did it happen? As a counter benefit, the public has seen the Democratic Party of Korea commit legislative dictatorship in the National Assembly 29 times, Prime Minister Han Deok-soo has been impeached, and the Constitutional Court recently withdrew the crime of rebellion. So there are some mixed public sentiment.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: Yes, but some say that it is hard to say that it is a message to the middle class. In the case of Yoon Sang-hyun and Kim Min-jeon, they often go to the president's Hannam-dong residence, but there are Chinese people in every rally in favor of Kim Min's impeachment. Should I say this because it can be a diplomatic comment that can be a little embarrassing and there is a basis for it? What do you think?

◇ Park Choong-kwon: There were some people who spoke to the farmers of the Nam Tae-ryeong tractor protest by introducing themselves as Chinese, and sometimes people who are seen as Chinese in these communities now come out in pictures or videos. But I can't tell you how many of them they really are.We need a more detailed and accurate investigation of the source.Ma will tell you that there were such circumstances anyway.

◆ In rural areas, there are a lot of young people from China who don't go there, so there are a lot of people from Southeast Asia.
◇ Park Chung-kwon: The most concerning part of what I've seen is that we still need a more detailed investigation of the source and its accuracy.A vehicle with the phrase Sohan Action Zone in Chinese behind a vehicle driving that vehicle has now been captured on camera, but when it comes to Sohan Action Zone, it removes the device.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: Get rid of it.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: I found another photo of him putting up such a phrase as "get rid of it," and if it's really true, this is really serious.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: Investigation by investigative agencies is also necessary. I would also like to emphasize that I added that I need to check the facts more accurately. The president is in the position of fighting anti-state forces to the end, and the expression of anti-state forces has appeared in statements and letters several times. Then there may be political confrontation, but the Democratic Party or the other side may ask if we are an anti-state force. Who do you think is anti-state force?

◇ Park Choong-kwon: If we're now anti-state forces, I think we had doubts about them, but I'm not sure if they really exist now, but if we look at what's happened in recent years, Jeju Island, Changwon, Chungcheongbuk-do, Cheongju

◆ Kim Woo-sung: You mean espionage cases?

◇ Park Choong-kwon: Didn't some executives of the KCTU have been sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying while exchanging orders with some North Korea? There really was a spy in the 21st century. So I think these people are really opposing South Korean forces. If you look at what these people did, KCTU officials exchanged orders with the North Korean regime more than 100 times, and what is it? If you look at the contents of the order, wasn't there an Itaewon disaster in the past? We also exchanged instructions to actively utilize the Itaewon disaster for anti-government protests like Ferry Sewol. We exchanged instructions such as "How do we use the incident of the Yoon Suk Yeol government to resign?" and "Get information on key facilities such as the Cheong Wa Dae U.S. military base." It is really anti-Korean forces that exchange things like this.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: The NIS and investigative agencies found and revealed the crimes of espionage in anti-aircraft investigation agencies, and they should be punished, but this is what the president will say now, so these investigations are actually conducted secretly to find and punish those who committed espionage. There are not only these security espionage activities but also various economic espionage activities, but there are also questions about the anti-state forces that the president is pointing out now, whether there are nuances aimed at the opposition party. It's not accurate.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: That's possible.Ma, because these people seem to be the few spies, but I think that those caught may be the tip of the iceberg.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: There are more spies in the Republic of Korea like this?

◇ Park Choong-kwon: So, there are definitely some areas where it is difficult for Korea to find and arrest spies. This is because the NIS has now lost its right to investigate anti-communist affairs, and the spy system applied as espionage is also lacking in Korea. So, there are situations where it is a little hard to detect, but there are very few people like this, but these people come out and pressure them whenever there is a state of chaos in Korea, and they come to the scene of some rallies or demonstrations and do bad things, so it is now wrong to act like this.

◆ [Kim Woo-sung] Yes, let me tell you that it's a personal judgment. This is the individual opinion of lawmaker Park Choong-kwon that there may be more forces for the security of the Republic of Korea as it can be a little controversial politically and socially. We will tell you that we do not share a different position from our broadcaster. If you look at what happened in the National Assembly and defense, it's what broadcaster Kim Eo-jun claimed. Han Dong-hoon's assassination team was operated. Also, in the notebook of former intelligence commander Roh Sang-won, he tried to provoke North Korea to cause local wars and various conflicts. These are allegations that are still under investigation, but if you look at this, there were some gun wind incidents in the past and in the 1990s. What do you think?

◇ Park Choong-kwon: First of all, I think I need to point out some of the testimonies about Kim Eo-jun. I believe that this is fake news that has not been confirmed yet. This is because it is said that there was an assassination group of the assassination group, including former representative Han Dong-hoon, and he tried to disguise it as the work of the North Korean military by dressing the assassination group in a North Korean uniform. I'm telling you this is really fake news that you don't even understand basic military common sense. Because if the North Korean military comes down to the Republic of Korea and commits a terrorist assassination, it will not come down in a North Korean uniform, but in a South Korean uniform, or like a civilian, it will now come down in disguise. Rather, if you say you wore a North Korean uniform, it is often the opposite. They infiltrate North Korea, so this is not very common sense, and they attack U.S. forces with drone weapons. So he tried to induce North Korea's provocation. This part can also be seen as missing basic military common sense. Because drones operated by the South Korean military or drones operated by the North Korean military are weapons. Self-destructive drones and attack drones are already armed, so they are fake news that is not in common sense because they are different from civilian drones used in the Ukraine war by installing separate weapons. However, it has to be pointed out that this was broadcast live while receiving the emperor's protocol at the National Assembly's over-defense, and if this is really real regarding the Road Council notebook, those involved should be punished appropriately. I would like to say that we should receive reasonable punishment through strict investigation, and if it is fake, those who spread and instigated fake news with unidentified sources should also be held accountable.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: I think there's something we need to think about a little more about the question of whether a North Korean operative would have worn a North Korean uniform and operated in the South. I said that liberal democracy would not be allowed in North Korea, but I will ask you briefly at the end. Emergency martial law has been lifted. According to the power of liberal democracy, it was lifted according to the parliament, but if it was not lifted, in fact, the basic constitutional rights of liberal democracy are greatly reduced. I'd like to ask you a brief opinion on emergency martial law.

◇ Park Choong-kwon: I think it would have been disastrous to say that it really happened. Because when the emergency martial law occurred, I thought, "What on earth can happen in Korea, an advanced country in the 21st century?" Fortunately, as the president said, I sent it as a warning from the National Assembly to commit legislative dictatorship. I really hope that's the truth.

◆ Kim Woo-sung: Yes, the poll I mentioned earlier is the result of an automatic response method from the 2nd to the 3rd at the request of the Energy Economy Newspaper by Realmeter. In other words, the public's support for power rose 3.8% from the previous week. You can refer to the website of the Central Election Poll Review Committee. Until now, I was Park Chung-kwon, a member of the People's Power. Thank you.

◇ Park Chung-kwon: Yes, thank you.