People Power Party Slams Rep. Jin Sung-joon Over US Visa as "Unprecedented Diplomatic Disgrace"

The People Power Party criticized Rep. Jin Sung-joon of the Democratic Party of Korea, chairman of the National Assembly's National Defense Committee, today (October 31) over his belated receipt of an official U.S. visa, calling it an "unprecedented diplomatic disgrace and a national disaster."

Park SUNGHOON, chief spokesperson of the People Power Party, said in a commentary today, "Now that the visa has been issued, he will board a plane to Hawaii as if nothing happened, but the bitter reality of the 'creaking South Korea-U.S. alliance' demonstrated by this incident will never be erased."

He added, "It is an unprecedented diplomatic disgrace and a national disaster that the defense committee chairman of the Republic of Korea's National Assembly was required by our ally, the United States, to submit an English translation of a past court ruling on National Security Act violations and a criminal history report, and only received entry approval after submitting them," emphasizing that it is "a symbolic scene that starkly reveals cracks in the South Korea-U.S. alliance and the collapse of trust between the two countries."

Chief Spokesperson Park stated, "This is a diplomatic disaster that would not have occurred had the chairman of the standing committee overseeing the Republic of Korea's national defense and security not been someone who called allied forces an 'occupying army,' advocated for their withdrawal, and argued for an armed revolution with North Korean support," and demanded that he "bow his head and apologize to the public for throwing the dignity of the Republic of Korea's defense committee chairman into the gutter and destroying trust in the South Korea-U.S. alliance."

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