It is too late to stop South Korea from going totalitarian people’s democracy with foreseeable consequences.

Freedom and Alliance in Jeopardy in South Korea:https://t.co/VWYjP8QnsA

— Tara O (@DrTaraO) February 17, 2021

FREEDOM AND ALLIANCE IN JEOPARDY IN SOUTH KOREA: AN INSIDER’S TESTIMONY

 Now no North Korean or Chinese communist agent operating in South Korea needs to be worried about being caught and prosecuted while South Koreans cannot freely talk about their own history or events they themselves witnessed. Given the highly partisan character of Korea’s presidential system, no public servant will dare to raise questions, let alone objections, to anything the President and his ruling entourage do, unless he or she is prepared to risk not only a career, but possibly his or her own life

 While these legislative acts taking away some basic constitutional rights were proceeding, two exceptionally courageous individuals, the Director General of Audit and Inspection, Choe Jae-hyung, and Attorney General Yoon Seok-youl were engaged in a deadly struggle to resist president Moon’s attempt to dismantle Korea’s nuclear reactor program and decimate the prosecutorial system which tried to probe into crimes associated with the president’s inner circle. A handful of young judges followed suit lighting new hopes. That, however, did not deter the ruling party from impeaching a judge, charged with having exercised undue influence on a judgement affecting the ousted president but found innocent by the court. This was a gross violation of the principle of separation of powers and unprecedented even in Korea

Furthermore, this happened only two days after the country was shocked to discover a secret government document file which revealed that while president Moon was pushing the policy of swiftly dismantling the nuclear energy system of the country, the government was planning to build a nuclear reactor for North Korea, possibly using some of the material from a south Korean reactor hastily dismantled by a presidential order.

 

This is the current state of Moon Jae-in’s populist democracy in South Korea. Two former Presidents, a former Chief Justice, three of the country’s former NIS chiefs, and countless other high-ranking officers of the former administration were imprisoned or harassed on various charges of misdemeanor or corruption soon after the launching of the Moon government.

In January this year, the ousted president drew a final sentence of 22 years of imprisonment with a fine and indemnity payment amounting to over twenty million dollars on highly disputable ground.  What Moon Jae-in and his covertly anti-American, openly anti-Japanese, pro-Chinese, and pro-North Korean regime has done is nothing less than a systematic attack on the liberal democratic governance so painstakingly built up over the past seventy years.  Besides those who have faced various forms of persecution because of their association with previous presidential administrations, many others suffered because they dared openly to criticize or caricature Moon’s politics of populism and provided leadership to the increasingly vociferous anti-Moon demonstrations.  One prominent leader of the anti-Moon rallies, a Protestant  minister named Chun Kwang-hoon, was at first harassed with a  charge of having caused massive coronavirus infection and then was imprisoned along with many other anti-Moon dissidents on minor violation of rules on mass meetings.

Not by coincidence, the country has witnessed over thirty unexplained and under-investigated suicides among prominent personages on both sides of the political divide since the inauguration of the Moon government.

As a person old enough to have lived through all these historical moments and also as a specialist in Russian history, I could see early on that Moon Jae-in and his cohorts, the so called “progressives” and members of the “Democracy Together” Party (literal translation of the ruling party) in Korea, were no liberals in the normal American sense of the term, but really latter day Leninists under the guise of “progressive” fighters for democracy determined to make a clean break with the liberal democratic system established in Korea in close alliance with the United States.

What Moon and his ruling circle did since his assumption of power  was all to be expected by persons, who like me, knew from the beginning the ideological orientation and true political intent of that particular group--they had been systematically trained in their youthful days to worship Kim Il-sung and his heirs as the true carriers of Korea’s spirit of independence and moral legitimacy unlike their southern counterparts. The southerners, according to them, had become lackeys of American or Japanese imperialism. 

It might be already too late to stop South Korea from going totalitarian people’s democracy with foreseeable consequences. 

We have to admit the inconvenient and painful fact that South Korea, in spite of its great economic superiority over North Korea, lost the war of propaganda and agitation to the North so that the people have voted into power persons, starting with president Moon, who believe that bringing two Koreas together under the aegis of the nuclear-powered North Korea serves the best interest of the Korean people and would stop at nothing to achieve their goal.

なっ、おれの言っていることはまんざら嘘じゃないべ？

南北朝鮮が組んで、属国ではないが、中華圏の微妙な地位に入る。

それでいいんだよ。彼、彼女らが望んでいることなんだから。

それを踏まえてだなああ、日本は軍事的に半島と決別し日本及び自由民主陣営の防衛のためにいまこそ立ち上がらなければならんのだよっ、諸君。

産経も韓国への未練は捨て、宗主国アメリカ様に「韓国は捨てて、日本は自由陣営の最前線に立ちます」と直言すべきだ。

ちなみに、文さんも大統領辞めたら捕まるな、やっぱ・・・伝統だし。