Another embarrassing moment for outgoing President Roh Moo-hyun has been leaked to the press:

The office of President Roh Moo-hyun has come under fire for lying about a humiliating incident during Roh’s trip to North Korean trip last October for his summit talks with the North’s leader Kim Jong-il.

A vernacular newspaper disclosed on Thursday that the South Korean summit delegation was forced to cancel its plan to install Roh’s inscribed stone slab in front of a commemorative tree planted by the president at a botanic garden in downtown Pyongyang on Oct. 4, due to the objection of North Korean authorities over the size of the stone weighing 250 kilograms.

North Korean officials opposed the installation of Roh’s commemorative stone, contending that giant stone monuments on North Korean soil can be erected only in the name of its leader and his deceased father, Kim Il-sung, according to the report carried by the Munhwa Ilbo.  Yielding to the North’s opinion, the embarrassed South Korean delegation brought the giant stone slab back to Seoul, the report said. [Yonhap]

The top pic is the rock that was removed and the bottom pic is the replacement.

Let’s see, Roh sends millions of unaccounted for aid to North Korea to include giving them $80 million dollars for one train ride with most it diverted to the military and he cannot even put a plaque under a tree in return.  Is there any clearer sign that the Sunshine Policy is a joke than this?

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