US Deal Humiliating: S Korea Lawmakers

The new agreement is a "humiliating and treacherous deal that prevents South Korea's access to the US auto market, which should be a key pillar of the FTA (Free trade Agreement)," the opposition party lawmakers said in a statement on Sunday, AFP reported.

The South Korean lawmakers added that the agreement has too many concessions for Washington and too little in return for Seoul.

"We have been hit by the North with cannons and now we're being hit by the US with the economy," said Park Jie-Won, floor leader of the Democratic Party, referring to last month's artillery assault by Pyongyang on a border island.'

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