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Na Kyung-won’s Facebook post on the 15th
A state of emergency as a security vacuum becomes real…
I cannot dismiss suspicions that this is a local-election publicity stunt
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, who is visiting the United States, said he met with U.S. President Donald Trump and discussed the prospect of resuming U.S.–North Korea talks. But Na Kyung-won, a lawmaker from the People Power Party, criticized the meeting, asking whether the country’s second-ranking official had gone to see President Trump with nothing more than an offer to arrange a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
On the 15th, Na wrote on Facebook that surging fuel prices and a sharp depreciation of the won have put pressure on households and the broader economy, and that an expansion of U.S. \”strategic flexibility\” has opened a real security gap — creating what she described as a state of emergency.
Earlier, on the 13th (local time), Prime Minister Kim met with President Trump at the White House for about 20 minutes. At a briefing with South Korean correspondents at the Korean Cultural Center in Washington, Kim said much of the discussion focused on North Korea.
Following the Kim–Trump meeting, Na said rumors began circulating about efforts to arrange a North Korea–U.S. summit. She added that the situation gave her a strong sense of déjà vu, recalling the run-up to the 2018 local elections — a \”Singapore again\” feeling.
She asked whether the prime minister had effectively volunteered to act as a broker for the administration’s political interests and local-election theater, calling the prospect deplorable. She noted that it later emerged the U.S. had not even fully realized that the 2018 Singapore summit took place immediately before South Korea’s local elections.
Na warned this gives rise to a reasonable suspicion that the North and South administrations cleverly misled the U.S. and staged a domestic political event. She emphasized that another security stunt that deceives both the United States and the Korean public must not be allowed.
She cautioned that, as the U.S. expands its strategic flexibility, key assets such as THAAD are being withdrawn from Korea one after another. At a moment when a security gap is materializing, she said the prime minister should have first secured assurances to keep strategic assets on the peninsula and to preserve a strong allied defense posture — rather than pursue talks aimed at local election politics.
Na added that security assets are difficult to restore once removed, while political events are fleeting illusions. This is not the time to stage a \”peace show\” amid acute global tensions. The only way to protect the national interest, she argued, is to prevent the outflow of strategic assets and to prepare overwhelming responses to any North Korean provocations.
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