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For Immediate Release
DATE: February 17, 2003
Contact: Mike Clem
301.682.6302
American Defense Council Urges All Americans to Boycott Hyundai Vehicles
Car Company Secretly Paid $500 Million to N. Korean Regime that Urges its Citizens to "Burn with Hatred" towards Americans
(Washington, D.C.) - Dan Perrin, president of the American Defense Council, has called on all Americans to put the brakes on buying Hyundai cars and trucks in response to a multi-million dollar secret deal that was revealed yesterday.
"In one of the most historically significant acts of greed and craven disregard for his fellow man, the chairman of Hyundai Asan Corp., Chung Mong-hun, secretly paid the brutal totalitarian regime of North Korea $500 million for 'exclusive business rights to seven projects' in North Korea," said Perrin.
"This is the same regime that recently threatened to 'annihilate' the United States, and on the birthday of North Korea's megalomaniacal leader, urged its citizens to 'burn with hatred' towards all Americans," Perrin noted. " The only reasonable response to this action is to boycott the company that paid $500 million in tribute to this despicable totalitarian regime."
He added that the unapologetic Communist power structure in North Korea most likely used the $500 million to further its aggressive drive for nuclear warheads and the missiles that can deliver them to America's West Coast.
"This act of treachery towards the United States must not go unanswered," said Perrin. "Every American with a Hyundai vehicle should sell it, and those considering a Hyundai purchase should immediately shop somewhere else."
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