Court Order Extends Uri’s Life Support

It’s a setback for Comrade Chung and Kim Geun Tae*

The Seoul district court yesterday dealt a crucial blow to the Uri Party leadership by ruling that its revision of party regulations is invalid, accepting arguments in a petition filed by party members associated with President Roh Moo-hyun. The ruling effectively invalidates the plans of the party leadership, who had been gearing up to launch a new party, whereas pro-Roh members want to stay under the Uri Party umbrella. Eleven pro-Roh legislators hailed the ruling by urging the party leadership to resign.

Uri is supposed to have a party convention in just over three weeks, where it was supposed to officially announce its replacement, which I think they’re planning on calling the Korean Revolutionary Working Peoples’ Party, or maybe the Peoples’ Front of Korea.  Someone remind me.  Anyway, odds?

*   who, as the leader of South Korea’s ruling party, danced for the amusement of the North Koreans at Kaesong, a week after North Korea tested a nuclear weapon.