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It seems that the (f.. reactionary) S.K. daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo is really hating (haehae~ what a surprise!!) the Democratic Labour Party..!

Following editorial was published in Chosun Ilbo's today's English editon:

No Wonder Nobody Likes the DLP

 
Downtown Seoul was a mess once again on Sunday. The Korean Alliance Against KorUS FTA, as it bills itself, held a rally in front of City Hall and hundreds of protesters marched into the streets waving banners and disrupting traffic. The police had informed the alliance that their request to hold a rally had been rejected. The police response was only natural, considering the fact that in November of last year, protesters from the anti-FTA group attacked city halls and provincial government buildings in seven locations across the country, setting some on fire. But the group was able to hold the rally downtown thanks to the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), which had applied for a permit allowing its own members to hold an anti-FTA rally in front of City Hall. They held a short rally and then handed over the microphone to the anti-FTA alliance. The same thing happened in December last year and in January this year. Using its National Assembly status, the DLP gained police permission to hold a rally and the anti-FTA alliance used that gathering to launch an illegal protest.

 
In authorizing the DLP rally, the police said they expected the party to be responsible in managing the gathering in a manner befitting a public political group. When the DLP leaders applied for permission to visit North Korea last October, the Unification Ministry authorized it on the condition that they would be careful in their conduct, since they were members of a South Korean political party. But as soon as they arrived in the North, the LDP(*) leaders issued a statement saying the U.S. and Japan, which have no qualms about starting a war on the Korean Peninsula, were continuing their mischievous maneuvers. Then they visited the birthplace of former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung. All this took place while two people from their party were indicted on espionage charges.

In the 2004 general elections(**), the DLP was able to win 10 seats in the National Assembly. There were expectations that the DLP would play a role in finding solutions to a wide range of social problems through the enactment of new regulations. On the contrary, the DLP has instigated illegal protests and violence by leftwing groups. Among the 520 people detained by police after an anti-U.S. protest in May last year, 30 were DLP members.

The DLP saw their approval rating rise to 21.9 percent just after the general elections in 2004. But according to a Gallup Korea poll last week, their approval rating fell to just 5.7 percent. Only the DLP members seem to have no idea why the public’s view of them has changed so drastically.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200703/200703260024.html

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