Author: Moon Jae-in
Publisher: Bookpal
488 pages | 153 * 196 mm
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About This Book
Presidential hopeful Moon Jae-in publishes book on his time in the
Roh Moo-hyun administration
By Andy Jackson Jun 15, 2011 10:56PM UTC
Progressives looking to challenge moderate Democratic Party chair Sohn
Hak-kyu for a presidential nomination will likely have to go through the
very former president Roh Moo-hyun.
Roh had been shunned by virtually every established politician (a and
four-fifths of the general public) by the time he left office in the
spring of 2008. However, his suicide just over a year later, after
facing what his supporters considered to be politically-motivated
corruption charges, has made him a martyr to much of the Korean left.
That means the person who can establish himself as Roh¡¯s standard barer
will have a built-in constituency.
For much of the past two years, that standard barer has been People¡¯s
Participation Party chair Rhyu Si-min. Rhyu is still second only to Sohn
among potential progressive presidential candidates in public opinion
polls, but his weakness as a candidate leaves an opening for someone
else to seize the mantle as Roh¡¯s representative on earth.
Moon Jae-In, Roh¡¯s chief of staff, is being touted as the man for the
job. While Moon denies interest in the job, he has been actively working
with political parties and progressive NGOs on forming a united front
for legislative elections next spring. That will leave him well-place to
pursue the presidential nomination later next year.
As if his current job title of head of the Roh Moo-hyun Foundation were
not enough of a reminded of his ties to the former president, Moon has
some out with a book detailing the "secret history¡± of the Roh Moo-hyun
administration.
Detail of Moon Jae-in's book, "Moon Jae-in's Destiny"
In the book, Moon Jae-in¡¯s Destiny, Moon details secret contacts between
the Roh administration and North Korea.
Moon also claims that the former president told then president-elect Lee
Myung-bak negotiations on resumption of U.S. beef imports to South Korea
should be delayed until after ratification of the South Korea-United
States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). Imports of American beef had
been banned after cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow
disease) were discovered in the USA. The Roh administration had agreed
to the resumption of imports. The Lee administration implemented soon
after taking office in the hope of winning US congressional ratification
of the FTA. Massive protests against the agreement hobbled the Lee
administration in the first months of his presidency. The KORUS FTA has
yet to be ratified by either the Korean or American legislatures.
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