[Jeju Update] [Translation] The Elected Governor Says, “The Navy Should Not Enforce the Setting-Up the Work”

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서귀포 일간 신문
Seogwipo Daily Newspaper

우근민 호, 해군기지 해결 물꼬 트나_ 우 당선자, “해군, 착공 강행하면 안된다”
:강정마을, “문제해결 약속 기대하고 있다”

Woo Geun-Min, Will he Make a Break through?_The Elected Governor Says, “The Navy Should Not Enforce the Setting-Up the Work.”
:Gangjeong Village, “ We Are Expecting that You Would Keep the Promise to Settle the Issue.”

2010년 06월 04일 (금) 11:46:41
June 4, 2010 (Friday)

김경덕 기자, tree (at) seogwipo.go.kr
Kim Kyung-Duk, tree (at) seogwipo.go.kr

▲ 우근민 당선자는 4일 제주도청에서 기자간담회를 열어 해군기지 착공 중단 입장을 내비쳤다.
▲Woo Geun-Min, the elected governor hinted his view to stop the setting-up of the naval base when he held the informal gathering with the reporters in the Jeju island Hall on June 4.


민선 5기, 새로운 도정을 이끌 우근민 당선자가 '해군기지 문제'에 해결 의지를 선보이면서, 3년 넘게 심각한 갈등을 초래한 이 문제가 새 국면을 맞게 됐다.

As the [five times] elected Island governor [by the government and people], Woo Geun-Min who would lead the new Island government benched his will to settle the ‘naval base issue,’ the issue that has brought out the serious conflict for more than three years became to have the new phase.

우근민 제주지사 당선자는 4일 기자간담회에서 해군기지 갈등과 관련, “해군이 착공을 강행하면 안된다”면서 “제가 도지사로 임명되는대로 국방부장관을 만나러 가겠다”고 문제 해결에 의지를 표명했다. 같은 시각 강정마을회는 우 당선자에 해군기지 문제 해결에 따른 입장을 간곡히 요청하고 나섰다.

Woo Geun-Min, the elected Jeju Island governor saying in the talk meeting with the press reporters on June 4, related to the conflicts surrounding the issue of the naval base, that, “The navy should not enforce the setting-up [of the naval base plan], expressed his will to settle the issue by telling that, “As soon as I am designated as the Island Governor, I would meet the Minister of the National Defense Depart.” At the same time, the Gangjeong Village People’s Council urged the elected Woo, to show his will to settle the issue on the naval base.

우 당선자는 이날 “강정주민들한테 어제 전화를 걸어 이 일을 하는 데에 절차적이고 공개적으로 하겠다고 약속했다”면서 “‘관선과 민선 5번째인데 뽑아주고 놨더니 후련하지 않더라’라는 얘기는 듣지 않을 생각”이라고 피력했다.

The elected Island Governor, Woo saying on the day that, “I called the Gangjeong villagers yesterday and promised them that I would do the work on that in the procedural and open ways,” expressed his idea that, “I don’t want to hear the telling [from people] that “Even though he was chosen [as the Island Governor] five times by the government and people, we don’t feel relieved.”


▲강정마을회는 4일 기자회견을 열어 우근민 제주지사 당선자에 해군기지 문제 해결을 요청했다.
▲The Gangjeong Village people’s Council holding the press interview on June 4, requested Woo Geun-Min, the elected Governor, the settlement of issue on the naval base.

강정마을회도 이날 제주도의회 도민의방에서 기자회견을 열어 우근민 제주지사 당선자에 “해군기지에 대한 문제해결을 약속한 만큼 구체적인 해결방안이 나오기 전에 착공 추진을 중단시켜야 한다”며 요구했다.

The Gangjeong Village Peoples Council holding the Press Interview in the Island People’s room in the Jeju Island People’s Council on the day, requested to Woo Geun-Min, the elected Jeju Island Governor that, “As you have promised the settlement of the issue on the naval base, you should stop the [navy] drive to set it up before the concrete ways of the settlement comes out.”

강정마을회는 “우리의 입장은 너무나도 단순하다”고 운을 뗀 뒤, “제대로 된 절차와 상식적인 이유와 논리를 지켜달라는 것”이라며 “단 한 번이라도 강정 주민들에게 제대로된 설명과 합리적인 절차로 임해 보존할 귀중한 자원과 생명을 존귀하게 여기는 신뢰를 보여 달라는 것”이라고 요구했다.

The Gangjeong village people’s council starting by saying that, “Our position is very simple,” told, “Please keep the right procedure, common-sense reason and logic,” requested him to “Please show the Gangjeong villagers that even though it is once that you consider the precious resources and lives that should be protected through the right explanation and reasonable procedures.”

특히, 강정마을회는 해군기지 갈등 해결에 있어, “단순히 인센티브나 보상차원의 문제 해결”을 거부했다.

Especially, the Gangjeong Village People’s Council denied the “ the settlement of issue in the level of simple incentive and compensation,” in the settlement of the conflict on the naval base.

이들은 “대화와 절차에 충실히 따르는 길만이 제주해군기지의 유일한 해법”이라면서 “만약 우근민 당선자께서 우리 입장을 등한시하고 단순히 인센티브나 보상차원의 문제로 접근한다면 이 또한 소통부재의 현재 김태환 도정과 다를 바 없다”고 주장했다.

They saying that, “ To faithfully follow according to conversation and procedure is the only solution for the Jeju naval base issue,” claimed that “If the elected governor, Woo Geun-Min approaches the issue with simple incentive and compensation ignoring our views, it is not different from the Kim Tae-Hwan (current Island Governor) Island government with whom the communication is absent.”

강정마을회는 오는 7월 우근민 당선자의 도지사 취임 직후 해군기지 문제 해결에 따른 제안을 정식 요청할 계획을 잡고 있다.

The Gangjeong Village People’s Council has a plan to officially request the suggestion on the settlement of the naval base issue right after the nomination of the elected Governor, Woo Geun-Min in coming July.

이들은 “당선자께서 최대의 치적으로 4·3특별법 제정을 꼽았듯이 제주도의 현실과 도민의 아픔과 고통을 진정으로 이해하고 어루만져주고 감싸안아주는 도지사가 되어주시길 간곡히 당부드린다”면서 “도민 대통합의 길은 해군기지 문제가 선결돼야 이룰 수 있는 길”이라고 덧붙였다.

They saying that “ As you have mentioned the establishment of the 4.3 special law as your best accomplishment of your governing, we urge you to be a Island Governor to truly understand, care, and embrace the pain and reality of the Jeju Island and her people,” added that “ For the great integration of the Island people, it is only possible through the settling the issue of the naval base issue first.”

한편, 강정마을회는 이날 오후 1시 우근민 당선자의 선거사무소를 방문해 이같은 입장을 전달한다.

Otherwise, the Gangjeong Village People’s Council deliver[ed] their such position visiting the election office of the elected governor Woo Geun-Min, at 1pm on the day.