MB goes rogue

Posted on : 2010-08-17 15:02 KST Modified on : 2010-08-17 15:02 KST

 President Lee Myung-bak drives a motorcycle carrying two nominees. Lee wears a box for collecting a “unification tax” around his neck and considers introducing a new “shouting tax.”

 The left one on the motorcycle is the vice minister nominee in charge of energy and national resources policy Park Yeong-joon who was suspected of being involved in an illegal civilian surveillance scandal when he was a top official at the Prime Minister’s Office.

 On the right is National Police Agency Commissioner-designate Cho Hyun-oh. Bereaved family members of sailors who died during the sinking of the Cheonan are enraged as Cho says that during the funeral they “wailed like beasts.”

 Cho has also been caught up in controversies regarding remarks about late President Roh Moo-hyun’s death and questions about funds collected for bereaved Cheonan family members.

 President Lee Myung-bak has ignored calls for withdrawing nomination of these officials embroiled in scandal.

  

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