“’vacation’ can’t be a reason
The US and China will look into it and think about it.”
<img class="thumb_img" src="https://img.khan.co.kr/news/2022/08/04/news-p.v1.20220804.c2064ecfe90043d180246c5e17fc51ba_P1.jpg" alt="President Yoon Seok-yeol and his wife, Kim Gun-hee, watch the play in Daehak-ro, and have an afterthought with the actors. |Provided by the President’s Office”/>
Yoo Seung-min, a former lawmaker, criticized President Yoon Seok-yeol’s failure to meet with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who visited Korea on the 4th, saying, “How should I think of not meeting the representative of the US Congress while watching a play in Daehangno the day before?”
On the same day, former lawmaker Yoo posted an article on his social networking service (SNS) with the headline, ‘President Seok-Yeol Yoon must meet US House Speaker Pelosi’ and said, “I can’t understand that the first-ranked member of the U.S. Congress, an ally of our ally, visited Korea and the president didn’t meet. ” he pointed out.
“The United States is a presidential system, but in foreign affairs and security, the parliament plays an important bipartisan role,” said former lawmaker Yoo. “When President Trump reviewed the USFK reduction card, it was the US Congress that made the decision to maintain USFK.”
He continued, “The Speaker of the House of Representatives, the representative of that Congress, ranks third after the Vice President in the United States’ ‘National War of Nations’, but is effectively second in power in Washington. It was Chairman Pelosi who tore it to pieces,” he added.
Former Rep. Yoo said, “Even if the U.S. House of Representatives and House of Representatives, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense visited Korea, most of our past presidents met with them. The reason we met without respect was because the ROK-U.S. alliance was so important and their roles were important. That he is on vacation cannot be a reason.”
He said, “Chairman Pelosi is visiting JSA today. It is undesirable no matter how much you think that the leader of the parliament of allies is visiting the forefront of our security and has no meeting with our president,” he said. Diplomacy serves no national interest. I hope that President Yoon will change his mind even now and meet Chairman Pelosi.”