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Failed attempt to kill Lee Jae-myung: Trilateral Conspiracy?(3)

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The AKF has accumulated enormous wealth during 90 years. During the Japanese colonial period, it became rich by stealing land, houses, factories, money and other assets belonging to Korean patriot families.

During the post-war period, the AKF became extremely rich by the following methods: appropriation of assets of Japanese who left Korea, business-politics collusion allowing the AKF to take a good part of GDP growth, infinite kinds of bribes, kickbacks, illegal land speculation, forced change of land zoning code, fees for the deployment of 300,000 South Korean soldiers to Vietnam, the 4-River construction project, the Natural Resource diplomacy and outright embezzlement of public funds.

 

Nobody knows about the wealth of the AKF. But it surely amounts to several trillions of dollars. Much of this wealth is invested in real estate at home and abroad.

The AKF had to protect its wealth at all costs. To protect the wealth, it must keep power. To keep power, it must eliminate those who criticise or those who are suspected to criticise the AKF government; it has been imposing police dictatorship, military dictatorship, prosecutor dictatorship even media dictatorship.

 

Through such criminal regimes, the AKF has massacred more than 600,000 South Koreans; perhaps more than 30% of South Korean families have been the target of police harassment; a great number of young people were barred from public service; many were expelled from Korea; countless young people were tortured by the police for their street demonstration.

Counter offensive of citizens

The PKF has not remained idle. It fought back in two ways. One way was the popular uprising by all citizens, especially by the students. The other was counter offensive by PKF governments.

 

•The Student Revolution (April 19, 1960) leading to the dismissal of President Rhee Syngman who escaped to Hawaii on American CIA plane. 
•The BUMA Protests (October 16, 1979) leading to the assassination of General Park Chung-hee by his CIAK director.
• The Kwangjoo Democratic Movement (May 18, 1980) allowing the imprisonment of General Chun Doo-hwan and General Rho Tae-woo for corruption.
• The Democratic Movement of June 1987: Amendment of constitution allowing direct election of president by the people.
• The Candle Light Revolution (2016-2017) by 17,000,000 citizens of all ages leading to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye and the formation of the PKF's government of Moon-Jae-in.

 

Counter offensive by the PKF's governments.

The government of Kim Daejung (1998-2003), the government of Rho Moo-hyun (2003-2008) and the government of Moon Jae-in (2017-2022) have fought back against the AKF.

The 15-year PKF governments have fought against the AKF through political, economic, media and judicial reforms.

The three presidents of the PKF have certainly harmed the privileges of the AKF. 

However, it was the government of Moon Jae-in which has harmed the most the AKF.

 

3. Anti-AKF policy of Moon Jae-in 

Armed with the spirit of the Candle Light Revolution, Moon Jae-in took power in 2017. This change of power meant a great threat for the AKF which had lost its force despite the desperate efforts by Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye to restore it.

The measures adopted by Moon Jae-in included the following: the destruction of the bribe culture, increase in government spending for the improvement of the well being of the ordinary people, increase in minimum wage, increase in the coverage of medical care insurance, increase in corporate tax, increase in capital gains tax, restriction of the coverage of the security law, increase in the negotiation power of labour unions and many other measures which drastically reduced the source of income of the AKF.

 

4. AKF reaction to Moon Jae-in Policy

Election of Yoon Suk-yeol as President

The AKF was alarmed by Moon's policies. The AKF decided to find someone who could destroy the PKF. Well, the someone was Yoon Suk-yeol.
 
The AKF knew that Yoon had no experience in politics or administration except arresting and imprisoning people.

But this was, precisely, the quality sought by the AKF which wanted a butcher who would kill the PKF.

During the campaign, Yoon showed his ignorance, his stupidity and his Shamanism. He showed, during a the debate, the sign of king "王" on his hand. His wife, notorious criminal, was known to be the disciple of Shaman called "Cheon -Gong".

 

5. Mission of Yoon Suk-yeol

Yoon seems to have these missions. 

• Maximum creation of wealth for Yoon and the AKF
• Prevention of citizen's mass protests against Yoon's government and the AKF
• Imposition of Prosecutor dictatorship
• Demonization of the PKF and its party, Democratic Party of Korea (DPK)
• Elimination of future leaders of the PKF
• Elimination of Lee Jae-myung

Maximum Creation of wealth for Yoon and the AKF

In addition to the usual way of accumulating the wealth of the AKF, Yoon has been trying to stack up money for himself and his friends of the AKF.

First, increase of the allocation of resources to large corporations through subsidies and grants and decrease of corporate taxes so that the bribe money can flow in the pockets of Yoon and the AKF.


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Failed attempt to kill Lee Jae-myung: Trilateral Conspiracy?(2)

 

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In 2019, Japan imposed trade sanction on South Korea in connection with the labour slavery of Korean workers. But, the PKF fought back through the "Do not buy Japanese goods" campaign ended up by total failure of the Japanese trade sanction. So, Japan does not like the PKF.

 

Yoon Suk-yeol and the AKF know too well the power of the mass (PKF) which forced all the six AKF to terminate their presidency in tragic way.

 

The following shows how Washington, Tokyo and Yoon's AKF have played their respective role to destroy the PKF.

 

Washington's role

 

In 1905, Washington took side with AKF through the Taft-Katsura Agreement by virtue of which Japan could have Korea, while the U.S. could conquer the Philippines. This resulted in the annexation of Korea to Japan which was made possible by the treason of Lee Wan-yong who sold Korea to Japan free of charge.

 

This created a situation where the traitors and Korean patriots started to fight. This fight is going on now between the descendents of the two forces.

 

During 15 years since 1945, the American military government (1945-1948) and the government of Rhee Syngman (1948-1960), the traitors were hired to run the two governments and the traitors massacred several hundreds of thousands of South Korea civilians to silence the voice of objection to these governments.

 

In this way, Washington was responsible for the survival and the expansion of the AKF on the one hand and, on the other, the massive destruction of the PKF.

 

During the pro-US military dictatorship of Generals Park Chung-hee (1962-1979) and Chun Doo-hwan (1980-1987) Washington supported these two dictators despite their cruel and violent violation of all human rights of the PKF. There is no doubt that Washington has abundantly contributed to the AKF-PKF fight for AKFs advantage.

 

Now, under the government of Lee Myung-bak (2008-2013) and that of Park Geun-hye (2013-2017), Washington would have intervened for the presidential election through various means including the creation of fearful social climate by intensifying anti-North Korea military propaganda and military threat. Such social climate has often led to electoral victory of the AKF.

 

There was another way of Washington's interference in the South Korean presidential elections. For example, two leaders of South Korean minor political parties were suspected to have contributed, in 2022, to the slim victory of Yoon Suk-yeol. These individuals are suspected to be collaborators of American intelligence agencies.

 

Washington has been showing to Koreans that the AKF's diplomacy with Washington is better than that of PKF's. This tactic of Washington is motivated to alienate the PKF and to support the AKF.

 

Tokyo's role

 

Tokyo has surely contributed to the interests of the AKF at the expense of those of the PKF.

 

It is true that Japan lost the Pacific War. But, its ambition of ruling Asia again never died. To rule again Asia, Japan had to conquer again Korea. To do so, it was necessary to colonize Korea again. To colonize against Korea, Japan needed the collaboration of the pro-Japan conservative force, that is, the AKF.

 

It was Japan who funded the first political party of the AKF led by General Park Chung-hee who received USD 66 million in 1963 from Kishi Nonuske, the virtual leader of Japan.

 

General Park created with this money the Republican Party. The current party of the AKF, the People Power Party (PPP) is the linear offspring of Park's Republican Party.

 

Another strategy of re-colonizing Korea was the negation of Japanese war crimes against the Korean race. The "New Right" movement in South Korea was created to convince the Korean people that the Japanese colonialism was good for Korea and that the PKF's unfriendly attitude toward Japan is wrong.

 

One of the ways of supporting the AKF and punishing the PKF was its diplomacy with South Korea. When the AKF is in power the Japan-ROK relations were smooth and constructive. But, when the PKF is in power, Tokyo chose hostile relations with South Korea to argue that the PKF is unable to conduct good diplomacy.

 

Thus, both Washington and Tokyo have conspired to help the AKF and penalizing the PKF for the promotion of their respective interests.

 

Role of Yoon and AKF

 

The role of Yoon Suk-yeol and the AKF is to subordinate Korea's interests to those of Japan and the U.S. in return of their protection provided by Washington and Tokyo.

 

Yoon justified and glorified Japanese colonialism. This concession increases Japan's ambition to colonize Korea again.

 

As for the U.S, Yoon accepted the trilateral military alliance. This concession forces the ROK army to fight the China-U.S. proxy war and it will mean the end of Korea.

 

In short, Japan and the U.S. have conspired with the AKF in its fight against the PKF. In return, Yoon has promoted the interests of Tokyo and Washington even at the expense of Korea's interests.

 

This is the essence of the trilateral conspiracy.

 

 

2. Evolution of the AKF-PKF Fight

 

Creation of the AKF's wealth

 

In the evolution of the AKF-PKF fight, money has played the vital role. Money has allowed AKF to take and keep power and control the PKF.

 

In total, the AKF has ruled Korea for 35 years (1910-1945) during the Japanese colonial period and governed South Korea for 55 years since 1945.

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Failed attempt to kill Lee Jae-myung: Trilateral Conspiracy?(1)

Introduction

 

On the second day of 2024, in Busan city, Korea, a terrorist, called Kim(the murderer) tried to kill with double edged dagger Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the opposite party, the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK). 

The murderer disguised as admirer of the opposition leader approached Lee, asked Lee's autograph and jumped forward with his dagger and hit Lee's left side neck and pierced Lee's vein but, fortunately not the artery. 

By miracle, the victim survived after difficult operation in Seoul National University hospital.
 

The question which begs for answer is this. Has he planned to kill the opposition party leaders alone or was he ordered to do so by some hidden political forces? 

This criminal and dangerous incidence can have profound impact on the legislative election in coming April and the future of Korea. 
 
This paper discusses all relevant aspects of the incident including the possibility of the trilateral conspiracy (ROK-Japan-U.S.) which may be directly or indirectly responsible for the tragic attempted murder of the opposition leader. 

 

As pointed out by the Western media, the incident is caused by the internal conflict within South Korea. This is the right observation. But, we need to know the nature of such conflict. 

The conflict has a long history of 113 years (1910-2023). It is the conflict between two opposing forces. 

One is the Anti-Korea Force (AKF) composed of those Koreans who collaborated with Japan during the Japanese colonial era (1910-1945) and their descendents. 

The AKF regards the Koreans as rival even as enemy. Therefore, they pursue their own interests at the expense of the interests of the Korean people. 

 

On the other hand, the opposing force is Pro-Korea Force (PKF). This force includes patriots who fought against the Japanese oppression and flagrant violation of human rights and patriots' descendents who have been fighting the corruption and the abuse of power of the AKF ever since 1945.

The PKF pursues the promotion of all Koreans' interests, while the AKF is interested in assuring its own wealth and privileges.  

The AKF-PKF conflict has been difficult to settle partly because of the intervention of Japan and the U.S. to support the AKF.

In other words, this conflict has lasted so long partly due to the conspiracy among AKF of South Korea, Japan and the U.S. I call this conspiracy as "trilateral conspiracy."

 

This paper discusses the following issues.

• Nature of the trilateral conspiracy 
• Evolution of the AKF-PKF Fight
• Anti-AKF policy of Moon Jae-in
• AKF's reaction to Moon Jae-in Policy
• Mission of Yoon Suk-yeol 
• Facts of Murder Attemp

 

1. Nature of the Trilateral Conspiracy

In this part, I am discussing the role of AKF, Washington and Tokyo in creating problematic social and political climate conducive to the failed attempt to murder Lee Jae-myung.

The conspiracy is possible, because all the three entities have something in common. 

The AKF of South Korea lacks legitimacy, because it is composed of the traitor's descendents. Therefore, it regards the PKF and the Korean people as enemies. Hence, its priority is given to the maintenance of its power, the creation of its wealth and the continuation of its privileges.

To attain these objectives, the AKF has to silence the opposition voice of the PKF on the one hand, and on the other, it needs protection of Japan and the U.S.

 

Now, Washington also needs to protect the AKF and demonize the PKF.

The AKF is very pro-Washington and it is ready to compromise Korea's interest for the promotion of Washington's interests.

For these reasons, Washington has been cooperating with AKF on the one hand, and on the other, it has been participating in the demonization of the PKF.

Japan also has reasons to support the AKF and antagonize the PKF. The AKF supports Japans argument that the Japanese colonialism was good for Korea and that crime of Comfort Women, Labour Slavery and other war crimes were not real. Such unpatriotic behaviour of the AKF is more than welcome for Japan, for it may justify the Japanese colonialism 2.0.

 

Japan wants to demonize the PKF, because it is not pro-Japan and because it wants Korea's sovereignty. 

There are other reasons for the three entities to side with the AKF and go against the PKF.

First, all the three do not want peaceful unification of Korea for different reasons.

For Washington, the peaceful unification of Korea means the withdrawal GIs from Korea. For Japan, the peaceful unification means threat to Japan and increasing difficulty in re-colonizing Korea. For the AKF and Yoon, the peaceful unification of Korea means alienation of the AKF and the end of its privilege.

 

Second, all the three entities do not like the strength of the middle class represented by the PKF.

For Washington, strong PKF means increasing difficulty in using South Korea for the promotion of its own interests. For Tokyo, strong middle class (PKF) makes difficult to justify its colonialism. For Yoon and the AKF, it becomes more difficult to destroy it so that Yoon and the AKF keep their wealth and privilege.

It is to be remembered that, in 2008, President Lee Myung-bak (2008-2013) could not import rotten America beef due to the PKF's mass protests. Lee Myung-bak wanted to please Washington. 
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The Korea-Japan Summit: Conspiracy, Capitulation, Korean War 2.0??(4)

 

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2. Impact of Korea-Japan Summit

 

There are internal impact and external impact. The internal impact is growing anger of Koreans.

 

Almost 80% of South Koreans are extremely anger for what Yoon did in Japan. They think that he is worse than Lee Wan Yong who gave Korea on the golden platter to Japan. They ask Yoon not to come back from Japan which he describes as Japan as "beautiful country". Beautiful Japan was the title of Shinzo Abe's book in which Abe was arguing for the restoration on Japan of the Meiji era.

 

Every week, hundreds of thousands of people go down to the street to blame Yoon and his advisors for sacrificing Korea for the glory of Japanese emperor. As of April 1, the candle-light, there were 33th demonstrations. On April 1, 200,000 people joined anti-Yoon demonstration. There were Koreans living abroad to show their support to the anti-Yoon demonstration.

 

There are many reasons for being angry.

 

To begin with, Yoon's ignorance of economic policy and his pro-Chaebol policy has resulted in the slowing down of economic growth. The forecast of GDP growth of Korea for 2023 is mere 1.7% which is even lower than the growth of the Japanese economy of 1.8%. The rate of growth of the Korean economy has been always superior to that of the Japanese economy for last twenty years.

 

South Korea has never had trade deficit, but since Yoon took over the power in 2022, Korea has been having mounting trade deficit. In March of 2023, Korea's trade balance was a deficit o USD 4.62 billion, while in March 2022, the trade balance was surplus of USD 2.15 billion. In March 2022, Korea was under the liberal progressive democratic government of Moon Jae-in.

 

It is to be noted that the major part of Korea's trade deficit is due to the trade deficit with China. In January of 2023, Korea's trade deficit with China was USD 4.0 billion. This is due to the beginning of Chinese trade sanction against Korea for its joining the Indo-Pacific Strategy designed to contain China.

 

Furthermore, Yoon has destroyed the peace on the peninsula obtained by sustained peace process with North Korea. But since Yoon took over the government, the North-South tension has gone up and the dark cloud of war is covering the sky of the peninsula. North Korea has been launching drones to South Korea and launching missiles aiming at South Korea military bases. Pyongyang makes it clear that it is ready to fight. Moreover, on March 13, it made successful test with under-water nuclear drone.

 

Thus, Koreas have good reasons to be angry with Yoon and his gang, but the disaster of the Yoon-Kishida summit was serious enough to make Koreans really mad against Yoon.

 

Koreans' anti-Yoon demonstration will continue until Yoon's Yoon's impeachment. He will go to Washington on April 26. He will be given first class treatment. In return he will present more free gifts to Biden including more chips, electric cars, batteries and even the membership of Quad. The date of his impeachment will be sooner.

 

But Yoon will react violently; he will mobilize the prosecutors, the police and court judges to captures innocent citizens to rule Korea with fear using the murderous security law.

 

Apart from the negative impact of the Yoon-Kishida Summit, the serious external impact is its impact of the possible Korea War 2.0. Even during the presidential campaign, Yoon provoked many time North Korea by mentioning pre-emptive attack and demonizing North Korea. What Yoon wants is the worsening North-South tension, which has been useful for election victory. In other words, the North-South tension has been a useful political tool for the pro-Japan conservatives.

 

However, before the Yoon-Kishida summit, North Korea was provoked to prepare shooting war. Now the formalization of GSMIA and the share of real time exchange of information of North Korean missiles launches could lead to Japan's unilateral military action against Pyongyang.

 

Remember that Japan announced that it could attack North Korea even without South Korea's consent. If this happens under the military alliance which was agreed upon behind door-though Yoon denies- the South Korea's armed forces will have to attack North Korea.

 

The outcome is obvious, both Koreas will be ruined and Japan will come back to Korea and the second annexation of Korea could happen. The new annexation is perhaps what the pro-Japan conservatives want, because they will be able to exploit the Korean people just like their ancestors who became rich and famous by serving the Japanese masters.

 

To sum up, the Yoon-Kishida summit has two devastating results. On the one hand, it has made Korea a faithful servant of Japan and, on the other hand, it has surely given the neo-Meiji Reformation Group (NMRG) led by the Liberal Democratic Party under Kishida to return to Korea as conqueror. (끝)

 

 

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The Korea-Japan Summit: Conspiracy, Capitulation, Korean War 2.0?(3)

 

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Yoon announced before the summit that Japan would remove the trade sanction. But Japan said that it would consider the matter.

In all the seven issues, Korea has gained nothing and gave everything to Japan. The summit was major victory to Japan and miserable defeat of Korea. South Koreans elected Yoon as president in 2022. They knew that he was not the ideal presidential candidate. But, they never thought that he was so stupid, so ignorant and so immoral and such irresponsible man.

 

His stupid action during the disastrous summit in Tokyo has put Korea in a worsening trade, slowing-down of GDP growth, widening income gap and, above all, increasing risk of the second Korea war. But he was surrounded by experienced in foreign relations and national security. The sad thing is that he ignores the opinions of his advisors. Many suspect that he relies on th opinion of his wife who is known to be disciple of Shaman, Cheon Gong.

Therefore, to understand what has really happened, we should analyse Yoon's motivational factors of Yoon's awful behaviour in Japan.

 

Analysis of Yoon's Behaviour

To understand, Yoon's anti-Korea behaviour, we have to go back to the period of Japanese colonialism 1910-1945. As I pointed out in my previous global Research articles, the Korea population was divided between the pro-Japan traitors who sold Korea to Japan free of charge in 1910 for their financial and political greed represented by Lee Wan Yong and the nationalist Koreans.

After WWII, the government of Republic of Korea which had its provisional government in China returned to Korea and it had the plan to punish the traitors. But this plan was not carried out due to the fact that the American military government hired the traitors as civil servants and police force.

Then, in 1948, the American military government left and the government of Rhee Syngman took over the power and run the government with the pro-Japan traitors. The pro-Japan traitors and their descendents ruled Korea for 75 years.

 

The pro-Japan traitors and their descendents formed a political party, the Republic Party in 1963 with USD 66 million given by Kishi Nobuske, the worst racist and Class-A war criminal to General Park Chung-hee, the military dictator. This party has changed many times its name and, now it is the People Power Party (PPP) of Yoon Suk-yeol.

 

The pro-Japan traitors have the following characteristics.

 First, they know that they have no legitimacy to govern due to their betrayal against the Korean people. 

Second, they are afraid of the people; they consider the people as enemies. 

Third, under these circumstances, they felt the need to cumulate money to protect themselves against the ordinary Koreans. This money has come from embezzled tax payers' money and bribe money. This has led to the creation of a solid pro-Japan corruption community protected by the corrupted judiciary system and media.

As a result, the policy of the pro-Japan government including its foreign relations policy is very little interested in promoting the well being of the people; it is interested in promoting the interests of their families and the members of their community which is rotten to the core.

 

The pro-Japan force was well aware of the shortcomings of Yoon as president. But this was not a problem for them. As long as Yoon kill the liberals who threaten the guilty conscience of the pro-Japan, he is a good president.

What motivates the political behaviour of the corrupted pro-Japan force is the fear of retribution of the people. Yoon and his friends are afraid of South Koreans and, especially, the North Koreans.

 

As a result, what motivates Yoon's domestic or international policy is motivated by the need of protectors. The best domestic protector is the rotten court judges and the prosecutors. 

The foreign protectors are Japan and the United States. In fact, Yoon seems to think that he is more a Japanese than a Korean. His father was the first Japanese scholarship winner in the 1960s and he was a devoted pro-Japanese academic. Yoon grew up in a very pro-Japan family and social environment where Japanese considered Koreans as inferior race. This may have induced him to conduct diplomacy with Japan to promote Japanese interests at the expense of Korea interests.

 

As far as Yoon is concerned, the U.S. is another reliable protector allowing him to keep power or to provide Yoon asylum in case Yoon has to escape in a situation where his life is threatened by the angry citizens. He may remember how Syngman Rhee narrowly escaped to Hawaii in 1960 under the threat of angry students who revolted against the extreme corruption of Rhee's government.
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The Korea-Japan Summit: Conspiracy, Capitulation, Korean War 2.0??(2)

 

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Thus, the Korean corporations which have nothing to do with the labour slavery have to pay the victims of slavery imposed by Japanese corporations. What is more absurd is this. Yoon promised that this policy will not change even under the new government which will come in four years. But in four years, he will be no longer president of Korea. In fact, he may be kicked out much before the end of his presidential term. Then, how can he make such irresponsible promise? Here again, Japan won; Korea is humiliated. 

Moreover, Yoon violated the constitution by disobeying the ruling the country's Supreme Court. This can be a reason for impeachment.

What is more shocking is this. A ranking Japanese cabinet minister says that the conscription of Korean workers never took place. Yoon did not protest against such irresponsible declaration of a Japanese cabinet minister.

GSOMIA: Then there was the issue of General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA). It is an agreement on the exchange of security related information. Under the agreement, partner countries must share security-related information after proper analysis of information. 

During the Korea-Japan trade war of 2019, under the government of Moon Jse-in, Korea withdrew from the agreement, but, the agreement was restored informally.

But, this time, Yoon agreed formalized GSMIA and Korea must provide Japan with information on North Korean military activities which may be a threat to Japan and South Korea.

The agreement is a lopsided agreement, which is more beneficial to Japan.


First, under the GSOMIA, one has to offer the real time exchange of military information without proper analysis. This may allow Japan to misjudge North Korean missile launch, because the earth, being round, it takes more time before Japan can track the direction of the missile. This could lead Japan to take hostile reaction to North Korean missile launched due to wrong judgment of the intention and direction of the missile. 

Second, Japan has little military information to offer to Korea. Moreover, Korean experts think that information provided by Japan has been of little use for Korea.

Third, the GSMIA may lead to Japan-Korea military alliance compelling South Korean armed forces to join Japan's war against North Korea and China.

Fourth, the Japan-Korea military alliance will allow the return of the Japanese military to the Korea soil. This will be never ever be accepted by Koreans.

Thus, Yoon has given the gift cup filled with gifts of vital importance to Korea's sovereignty security, pride and dignity. What is more alarming is that Japan filled the remaining unfilled gift cup with more Yoon<s gifts.

2. Additional Korea's Gift imposed by Japan

Many years ago, I saw on TV a Canadian businessman who talked about the Japanese, He said: "What the Japanese thinks in the forehead is quite different from what he thinks in the back-head." He was saying that one should not give a blank check in dealing with a Japanese businessman.

That was what happened to the stupid Yoon Suk-yeol. Yoon surely trusted that Japan would pay for Yoon's gift with something of some use. But, as suspected, Japan gave nothing. Instead, it asked the things which threaten the very existence of South Korea.

Fifth, Fukushima sea foods: Yoon promised to talk to Korean about the imports to Korea of the radioactive polluted marine product of the Fukushima region. Japanese sources reported that Japan asked Yoon to remove the imports restriction of Fukushima marine products of radioactive contamination to Korea. Yoon is reported to have promised to consider the possibility. 

Sixth, Dokto Island: There was the question of Dokto/Takeshima. The Tokto has been the thorny issue ever since WWII. There are ample proofs that Dokto is a Korean territory. But Japan has been arguing that it is its territory usually before major elections. 

For Koreans, Dokto is sacred. If Japan insists that it is its territory, Koreans are ready to go to war with Japan.

Thus, Dokto is a very delicate issue for Japan and Korea. In the past, when Japan mentions Dokto, at bilateral meetings, Korean delegate reacted very strongly.  

The Japanese media, including NHK reported that the issue of Dokto was discussed but Yoon did not protest. The presidential office of Korea denies such discussion having taken place. Koreans are nervous about the hidden agreement which might have taken.

Japan betrayed by putting in the school history text book that Dokto is a Japanese territory few days after the Yoon-Kishida summit.

Seventh,Trade Sanctions: In 2019, Japan reacted violently against the Korean Supreme Court's ruling ordering Japanese corporations who practiced labour slavery to pay the victims of labour slavery. And Japan imposed trade sanctions by restricting the exports to Korea of vital chemical product needed for the production of chips, smart phone and TVs.
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The Korea-Japan Summit: Conspiracy, Capitulation, Korean War 2.0?-(1)


Introduction

Stupidity, ignorance, stubbornness and cowardice of a man has put the future of South Korea on the sacrificial alter for the glory of the Japanese emperor.

On March 16, President of South Korea Yoon Suk-yeol went to Tokyo to meet with Japanese Prime Minster Kishida. This was the summit which Yoon has been begging like a beggar ever since he took office since May 9, last year.

At this summit, Yoon obtained nothing of value and, instead, he gave everything of vital importance for the security, sovereignty and the pride of Koreans. The vast majority of Koreans think that Yoon is the worst traitor to Korea and Koreans race. Indeed, he is even a greater traitor than Lee Wan Yong who sold in 1910 Korea to Japan free of charge.

As far as I am concerned, what happened at the sum was the result of the pro-Japan Koreans and anti-Korea Japanese conspiracy and the betrayal of Japan. The conspiracy was about the exchange of political gifts. Korea would present a cup half filled with gifts with Japanese gifts which would fill the remaining half of the cup. This was, in fact, the statement of the Korean foreign minister, Park Jin although he did not say it was a conspiracy.

But Japan has betrayed the conspiracy. It filled the other half of the cup asking even more Korean gifts.

I am dealing the following issues
• Conspiracy and Betrayal
• Additional gifts imposed by Japan
• Impact of Korea-Japan Summit

 

1. Conspiracy and Betrayal

The Yoon Suk-yeol has offered to Kishida the following gifts.

• The justification of Japanese colonialism in Korea.
• The acceptance of the Foreign Minister Agreement of 2015 on the comfort women issue.
• The payment to the victims of labour slavery by Korean corporations not by the Japanese corporation who enslaved Korean workers, namely Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Nippon Steel Corporation.
•The Global Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) and bilateral military cooperation.

Justification of Japanese Colonialism:

The Yoon government representing the pro-Japan conservative South Koreans represented by the Yoon's government argue that Japan annexed Korea in 1910 in order to modernize Korea. Korea was not able to modernize itself due to the lack of will and the capability to do so. Therefore, Japanese colonialism was beneficial to Korea. This is precisely the argument of Japan.

Koreans view such view is act of traitors. Yoon has c destroyed the pride and the dignity of Koreans. 

This view of Yoon was the great relief for Japan, because Yoon's such view is very useful for Japan's warmongering conservative forces led by LDP for justifying its illegal annexation of Korea, using it for the propaganda of racial superiority of Japanese and popular support for Japan's scheme of new invasion of Korea. 

In other words Yoon's stupid attitude provided the excuse for the return of Japanese armed forces to Korea. In fact, Yoon's anti-Korea and pro-Japan perception of the Japanese colonialism was great gift given to Japan.


.Comfort Women: Yoon went to Japan hoping that Japan show remorse and apologise for raping more than 250,000 Korean girls during several years by Japanese soldiers. True, in the past, handful Japanese political leaders showed remorse:  Kono (1993), Murayama (1995), Obuchi-Kim joint declaration (1998), Koizumi (20005).

But in 2015, Shinzo Abe denied all these manifestation of apology or remorse. 

Fumio Kishida, current prime minister of Japan, was asked if he would apologise for the sex slavery. He answer was that he would follow the position taken by his predecessors, but he did not say which predecessor. The predecessor was most likely Shinzo Abe. But Yoon did not protest.

So the negotiation on the apology for sex slavery ended up with total victory of Japan. It is reported that even before the summit, Yoon sent someone to Kishida begging him to say a simple word of regret for the crime against the poor comfort girls. Kishida ignored such humiliating request. It was a total humiliating defeat of Yoon. 

Compensation payment for labour slavery: During the 35-year of Japanese illegal occupation of Japan in Korea, Japan committed countless war crimes against humanity. One of these crimes was the conscription of almost one million Korean workers forced to work in Japanese mines and factories under sub-human living conditions.

The negotiation between the former slave masters (Japanese corporations) the former slaves (Korean workers) for sincere apology and compensation has lasted for decades. At last, in 2018, the Supreme Court of Korea ordered two Japanese corporations- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Nippon Steel to pay the compensations to the victims of the labour slavery. It was reported that these corporations were ready to pay the compensation, but the Japanese government told them not to do so.

You may not believe this. Since Japan refuses to pay the compensation to the victims, the Yoon's government has decided to make the Korean corporation to pay the compensation. Then, Korea will ask the Japanese corporation to pay later. This is ridiculous idea; the Japanese corporation will never pay. (다음 호에 계속)

 

 

 

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6. Will the American Wars continue?

Despite its terribly negative impact, these wars will continue, because it is beneficial to the APWC.

The perpetual war requires the following strategies: perpetual existence of enemies on the one hand and, on the other, the adoption of invisible and politics-free war.

If there is no demand for the war, there will be no war. Hence, in order that the war perpetuates, there must be sustained demand for war. But, in order that there be demand for war, there must be crisis and there should be crisis making countries or individuals. These countries and individuals become enemies of America.


There have been several waves of military crisis in the eyes of APWC.

The first wave of crisis: the spread of communism, 1950-1989

The second wave of crisis: threat of terrorism, 1990-present

The third wave of crisis: danger of nuclear proliferation, 1950-present
 
The fourth wave of crisis: drugs war 1990-present

The fifth wave of crisis: human right violation 2001-present

Thus, there are several ongoing crisis and enemies. Hence, the APWC has little to be concerned with the lack of enemies.

According to William M Arkin, Washington has bombed or is bombing these countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Niger, Mali, Uganda Moreover, there are ten more countries which might be being bombed. These are mostly African countries including Cameron, Chad, Kenya and 7 other countries.

Moreover, the APWC is used to invent enemies. The probable next crisis target could be the "Yellow-Peril crisis" involving China and other Asian countries.

President, Joe Biden has decided to intervene in case of "crisis" in foreign countries even without the authorization of the countries involved. This can provide a lot of potential enemies. 


Anyway, as far as the existence of enemies is concerned, the AWPC has little to be worried about. There will be plenty of them, if not, the APWC will invent them. 

For instance, not-being pro-U.S. could be treated as crisis and crisis maker as American enemy.
 
The next hurdle to overcome for APWC is to tackle the anti-war movement in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world.

The solution is to find ways of making wars invisible, saving American lives but profitable. This can be done through the use of unmanned weapons and production cost saving by using AI-based technology, which allows long-distance warfare by virtue of "hub-spoke" war strategy under which one can attack the enemy without being present at the battle ground.

More and more, war is undertaken by a system of hub-spoke.  In the current war against terrorism, hubs are located in several Middle East countries, Kuwait being the Army hub and Bahrain being the Navy hub. The spokes are spread throughout the world, especially in the Middle East and Africa.

William M. Arkin describes the efficiency of the hub-spoke model of war.

"It is so little understood, so invisible, so efficient,, even so as four successive presidents have promised and then tried to stop warfare, the spokes have grown and expanded." 

The reason for developing this type of warfare is the need for being free from anti-war public and anti-war politics.

But the most important reason for the perpetuity of America wars is the vicious circle of human greed.

The war brings money; money invites wars; wars bring more money; more money leads to even more wars and ad infinitum. This is the vicious circle of human greed. Since human greed has no boundary, American wars will remain perpetual.

Thus, American wars can go on and on until there will be no more valuable enemies. In other words, the war will go on until the total destruction of the world. 

So, to save the world, the perpetual American wars should be stopped. (끝)

 

 

 

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There are also three way traffic swing doors, namely the corporation-Pentagon-thin tanks. Some of the key members of the Washington war camp work for war corporations, the Pentagon and think tanks. In this dynamics, CSIS is often implicated.

The bribery system and the swinging-door system of policy making invite necessarily the culture of corruption.

"Corporate America as a whole was also corrupting hearts and minds numbing the public with entertainment and deluging with commercialism." (Sorensen: p.60)


5. What are the Negative Impacts of the American Wars?

There are internal and external negative impacts of American wars. The internal negative impacts of the American wars include human cost and economic cost.

The human cost of American perpetual war is high. Nobody knows how many Americans are killed or wounded. But some estimates say that as many as 50,000 Americas have been wounded in addition to tens of thousands of GIs who have been killed due to the perpetual wars.
 
"There is no honest accounting of the where how and why we are killing-how United States citizens are being protected and what security benefits are actually accruing to the United States in continuing perpetual war." (William M Arkin: nesweek.com/why-america-cant-end-its forever-war-1592749) 

The economic costs are high. The destruction of the country's potential economic growth is attributable to insufficient investments in education, health and infrastructure facilities. 

The U.S. invests almost $1.0 trillion a year for the perpetual wars forcing each American to contribute $2,200 a year to finance the wars.

The opportunity cost of American wars is high. The opportunity cost means investments which have been avoided due to the wars.

Here are some examples of opportunity costs: $70 billion to fight poverty; $42 billion to repair 43, 586 deficient bridges; $10.6 billion for the proposed program for the Center for Disease Control; $11.9 billion for the Environment Protection Agency; $17 for children who are starving.

Besides, Washington needs money to save 100,000 Americans who die every year from drug overdoses Washington must find way to eliminate street killings which happen four times every single day.

More than 10 % of American is not covered by medical insurance. Even those who do have medical insurance, the insurance cost is beyond the reach of the majority of Americans.

Another serious internal negative impact of the war is increasing public debt. In 2023, the U.S. public debt is $ 31 trillion as against $ 27 trillion for its GDP. This means that public debt is14.8% more than GDP. 

A good part of this debt is due to wars. In fact, the Iraq war produced U.S. public debt of $3 trillion.

This is a very dangerous situation, because with this kind of public debt, the country's fiscal policy becomes utterly useless.

Now, as for the external negative impact of American wars, it is impossible to have an idea. Almost 1.3 million people were killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan alone. Millions of refugees were produced. 

Over the years, the perpetual American wars have ruined national economies; they have undermined religions and traditional values; they took away the hope for better life of the people of the countries which have been the targets of American wars.

What is really disturbing is this. The American wars are supposed to promote and keep world safer. But, in reality, the American wars have instead worsened the world safety.

"After two decades of fighting, in fact, not one country in the Middle East - not a country in the world - can argue that it is safer than it was before 911. Every country that is now a part of the expanding battle field of perpetual war is a greater disaster than it was than decade ago." (newsweek.com ibid).

So, who are benefitting from American wars? Sorensen offers an answer.

 "The only people who ultimately benefit from militarized drugs war are perfidious flag officers, the D.C. regime executives, war corporations and a few native American elites." (Sorenson: p. 298)

I may go further. I say that the beneficiaries are the members of the APWC.

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3. What is the Purpose of the American wars?
 
There can be defensive purposes and offensive purposes of war. The defensive purposes can include the protection of national territory and national values such as religion, democracy and national assets representing the national tradition.
 
Then, there can be offensive purposes of war which can include the imperial invasion of foreign country in order to change political and economic regime, change religion, to expropriate foreign country's natural resources and maintain America's hegemonic domination.
 
There is one more offensive purpose, namely, the revival of stagnating national economy trough wars. 
 
In all probabilities, the defensive purposes are not relevant. No country dares to challenge American territory and its values. On the other hand, all of offensive purposes are relevant.
 
However none of the offensive purposes of American wars seem to have been attained. The Christianity had hidden it presence since long time. American democracy is falling rapidly. Regime-change war has ended up with regime destruction. America's global hegemony has to overcome several challenges.  
 
As for the expropriation of foreign countries natural resources, American imperialism should have been a success made possible through the worldwide value chain. Its main beneficiaries are American multinational corporations.
 
Now, as for the impact of American war on American economy, the usual analysis model is the military Keynesianism. The series of economic studies show that it can have a sort run positive effect on the national economy, but in medium terms, it will harm the economy's potential growth. In other words, war is harmful to the national economy. 
 
"After initial demand stimulus, the effect of increased defence spending turns negative around six years .After 10 years of higher defence spending, there would be 464,000 jobs less than the base line scenario with lower spending." (Dean Baker, economist quoted in journals.openedition.org)
 
In short, the American wars are not needed for the realization of defensive objectives. Nor are they useful means for the materialization of offensive ends with the exception of the expropriation of natural resources of foreign countries.
 
Then, why the U.S. continues the wars? If the war continues despite its dubious results, there must be some people who find in the war some benefits. The inevitable conclusion is that the some people are the members of the American Pro-War Community (APWC).
 
 
4. Who are the Beneficiaries of the American Wars?
 
.In order that the AWPC receive benefit from wars, the profit of war corporations must be abnormally maximized. In fact, the profit of war corporations must be very high due to these reasons.
 
First, war corporations receive the Pentagons research grants and tax incentives from the federal government.
 
Second, the use of Artificial Intelligence-based production system can save greatly the cost of the war corporations' production of war goods and services.
 
Third, war corporations enjoy the quasi monopoly status through corporate merging in the sector of highly specialized weapon production. The merging of Lockheed with Martin is a typical example. 
 
Fourth, in a situation of Pentagon-war corporation collusion, the possibility of the Pentagon's accepting high price is great.
 
Once the high corporate profit is assured, the next step of keeping perpetual wars is the intra-AWPC sharing of the corporate profit. This is done through bribes. Having received bribes, pro-war policy makers and pro-war law makers must go along with war corporations for more wars.
 
Bribes are given to the policy makers and law makers so that they accept what the war corporations ask for. This is the beginning of everlasting corruption culture.
 
The following cases show some aspect of the corruption culture.
 
In 2012, the war corporations gave $30 million and in 2014 they gave $ 25.5 million to the Senate Armed Service Committee. 
 
Christian Sorensen shows the source of corporate funds given to the 25 members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The following gives some examples.
 
• John McCain (R): General Electric, Raytheon and several other war corporations
• Jeanne Shaheen (D): Boeing General Electric
• Lindsey Graham (R): Northrop Grumman, Raytheon
• Bill Nelson (D): Lockheed Martin, Raytheon
 
A former CIA lobbyist made a meaningful statement regarding the state of corruption
 
"Years of legalized bribery had exposed me to the worst elements of our country's political working. Not even my half million-a-year salary could weigh my conscience…Today, most lobbyists are engaged in a system of bribery but it is legal kind, the kind that runs rampant in the corridors of Washington." (Sorensen: p.65)
 
For the last presidential election, Lockheed Martin donated $ 91 million. Fifty eight members of the House Armed Service Committee received in average $79,588 from the sector (war industry), or three times more than other representatives. Lobbying expenditures by the member of the warmongering community was $247 billion during the last two presidential elections.
 
However, in addition to the bribe system, there is the swinging-door relationship between the war industry and the Pentagon. The swinging-door relations result in the industry's direct participation in the defence policy making. I fact, the decision makers in the Pentagon and the decision makers in the war industry are in the war industry are the same people.
 
The first swing door allows the two way traffic of corporation leaders and the Pentagon leaders. Here are some cases of swinging door system of decision making.
 
• Ryan McCarthy assistant to Robert Gate, War Secretary went back to Lockheed Martin. He is now Under Secretary of Army.
• General James Mattis is now on the Board of Directors of General Dynamics, then, he became Secretary of War, then back to General Dynamics
• An Assistant Secretary of War was president of Goldman Sax focus on oil and gas
• An administrator of the Defence Technical Information (DTC) has directorship in multiple corporations
• The Under Secretary of War in charge of the finance of the Pentagon was partner of an accounting firm, Kearney which has strong business with the Pentagon
• Lester Lyle, director general of General Dynamics was Air Force National Commander
• Wilbur Ross, US Commerce Secretary had the following members of his advisory group: CEOs of Apple, Visa, Walmart, Home Depot, IBM, US Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Community College.
 

 

 

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