Two politicians from the opposition Minjoo Party declared their candidacy on Sunday and Monday, bringing the total number of Minjoo candidates to three, including front-runner Moon Jae-in.

But despite hailing from the same party, Ahn Hee-jung, the Governor of South Chungcheong, and Lee Jae-myung, the mayor of Seongnam, expressed significant differences on matters related to North Korea, including the contentious deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.

“If I were President Park Geun-hye, I would have never done it that way, it was clearly a foolish decision,” Ahn Hee-jung said on Sunday, criticizing the Park administration’s