GNP Supreme Council

On mounting public criticism over U.S. beef imports, leaders of the governing Grand National Party asked its party members on Friday to reflect on their actions. “The GNP should take this setback as an opportunity,” chairman Kang Jae-sup (second from left) says at the party’s Supreme Council meeting. From left are floor leader Ahn Sang-soo, Kang, council members Chung Hyung-keun and Jeon Jae-hee.

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