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Cho Kyung-tae said, "Lee Jin-sook's excuse is like saying you didn't drink and drive after drinking."

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Nationalist congressman Jeong Geom-tae demanded that the National Unity Party (NUP) expel Jeong Geom-tae, accusing him of having "no qualifications to be a member of the National Assembly." Meanwhile, Kim Min-soo, the NUP's top-ranking member, defended Jeong Geom-tae, saying that "questioning history is wrong." During a KBS radio program, Jeong Geom-tae criticized his own remarks as "vagaries" and labeled them as "nothing more than a drunken rambling."

He further stated that "if there had been no March 5th, the plight of the people of Gwangju and the democratic movement would have taken a very similar direction." The incident should not be dismissed as ordinary.

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·hani.co.kr

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