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Labor party lawmaker announces presidential ambition

A former leader of the progressive Democratic Labor Party Thursday announced his candidacy for a party primary for December's presidential election.

"The focus of this year's presidential election will be whether a candidate can offer ways to revive the economy and foster peace on the Korean Peninsula," said DLP Rep. Kwon Young-gil.

..No comment!!!

"I will surely bring a bright future for Korea with a shift to a progressive regime," he said.

Kwon ran in the 1997 and 2002 presidential elections on the ticket of the DLP but only garnered 1.2 percent and 3.9 percent of the vote, respectively.

Kwon is expected to compete for his party's nomination with two colleagues, Rep. Shim Sang-jung and Rep. Roh Hoe-chan, who already announced their presidential bids.

Kwon has proposed a federation-based unification of the two Koreas, the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Korea and the abolishment of the anti-communist National Security Law.

"I will be with any force that is willing to narrow the gap between rich and poor and that is against the free trade agreement with the United States," he said.

(Yonhap, 4.26)

http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20070426/610000000020070426135409E0.html

But beside the fact that Kwon and the other DLP-candidates - in my opinion - have complete no chances in the coming election, remember what the SK more radical left said just few years ago about Kwon:

"Some times ago DLP called Kwon Young-gil as the Korean T. Blair. Now they're calling him the Korean Lula.."

And - BTW - I remember that Kwon, during the last election campaign promised in front of foreign capitalists (I think it was in the American Chamber of Commerce, but I'm not really sure..) that he would try his best to guarantee peaceful solutions for possible labour disputes between them and their Korean workers, to avoid strikes, ie actions of class struggle..