Kim Young Sam's government failed to maintain the people's support. Never before has a ruling party been humiliated like this in an election. In Seoul, where a third of the country's population lives, the ruling party candidate came in third. There is a major crisis of confidence in the country. There is no leadership.
People are worried about the future.
My supporters have been asking me for a long time to return to politics, but until the June elections I had told them that I was not interested. When the government first came to power, Kim Young Sam's approval rating was very, very high. But slowly that changed, and you can see in the opinion polls and in the June local elections, people are not satisfied with his performance. People are angry at the abuse of power by the ruling party. Some people say he doesn't have a North Korea policy.