Once Saved but Killed at Last

Mr. Roh Moo Hyun was saved at first but let to die this recent time. He was dealt a a fatal blow this time by the Constitutional Court. The court, which had restored the then incapacitated President rendered by the parliamentary impeachment to the presidency, has said no to Roh. The court has ruled the President's ambitious yet hollow project of capital movement from Seoul to a southern part of region unconstitutional.


Had he had any frustration earlier? Probably not. His way of life has been relatively smooth. A graduate of technical high school, he has made his way up to the throne of the presidency of the republic through political ploys and a sheer luck.


Still, he has lacked street smarts. Although he has benefited from the folks about him, he has opted to make them his enemies to reckon with. He was even ganging upon the savior of his political life, rejecting patriotic recommendations by the Supreme and Constitutional Courts not to abolish the National Security Law.

It's Time They Behaved

They have made their way to the top in their own way. They've beaten physical and political odds--imprisonment and political incapacitation-- and made a brilliant political rise happen. In due course, they've come to run the Congress by grabbing the majority of the National Assembly. They've held the Administration under sway by forming the Cabinet. They've divided spoils by handing out executive positions of Public Businesses to committed partisans.


So it's time they behaved the way the ruling party and its members should have behaved. In the Legislative audit (inspection) of the Administration, however, the opposition Hannara Party and its member politicians have shown all the gamut of human decency--consideration, tolerance and generosity--whereas the ruling party and its members have taken on the characteristics of human weaknesses--brashness, rudeness, inconsideration and impatience. The ruling party auditors (inspectors) were shouting, scowling and whining, while the opposition party auditors showed insouciance.

Prostitutes Disappear into Morning Fog

It might have been an anathema, unsightly cityscapes across the nation. So by an evident dictate of moralistic President Roh Moo Hyun, the ruling Uri Party has passed the Anti-Prostitution Act and launched into crackdowns on prostitutes and their brothels.


Ladies of the street, shivering with an early morning chill of late autumn and apprehension over an uncertain future, dispersed for the moment like frightened creatures. But after a little while, hesitating what to do and how to say, they got together and started forming an association or two. (I hit the road for my sick leave of a short duration. I find the city shrouded in morning fog. In an hour or two the fog will evaporate and the city will make its reappearance.)


Can the state ban the trade? Is the government so morally clean that it could ask doers of the trade its undoing? Isn't it the reality that society people trade sex for positions and power? And a greater amount of money, of course that could be figured out not by thumb counting? Isn't it a mode of life that some weaker sexes of the lower social ladder trade their flesh for a little sum of bank notes and vice versa?

Prostitutes

It might have been an anathema, unsightly cityscapes across the nation. So by an evident dictate of moralistic President Roh Moo Hyun, the ruling Uri Party has passed the Anti-Prostitution Act and launched into crackdowns on prostitutes and their brothels.


Ladies of the street, shivering with an early morning chill of late autumn and apprehension over an uncertain future, dispersed for the moment like frightened creatures. But after a little while, hesitating what to do and how to say, they got together and started forming an association or two. (I hit the road for my sick leave of a short duration. I find the city shrouded in morning fog. In an hour or two the fog will evaporate and the city will make its reappearance.)


Can the state ban the trade? Is the government so morally clean that it could ask doers of the trade its undoing? Isn't it the reality that society people trade sex for positions and power? And a greater amount of money, of course that could be figured out not by thumb counting? Isn't it a mode of life that some weaker sexes of the lower social ladder trade their flesh for a little sum of bank notes and vice versa?

Kim Dae Jung and Kim Jong Il--Two Flagrant Deceivers

The City of Seoul and its people might cave in to the North Korean Liberation Army troops in less than 16 days if and when the army were to cannonade its way to South Korea, where the U.S. military troops have left the nation, Mr. Park Jinh, a National Assemblyman of the Opposition Hannara Party said on the 5th of October, 2004, citing a reliable source of the Defense Academy. He looked apprehensive as he released the shocking information to the media. In the meantime, National Assemblymen of the ruling Uri Party showed utter displeasure, vowing to take issue with the disclosure. (*The year 2008 is scheduled for the complete withdrawal of the U.S. military troops.)


Images flare up and then fizzle out in my mind's eye of scared folks stampeding, with the upper crust people of Korean society, who have had the rest of their family members in the United States, fleeing to Inchon International Airport mainly to get aboard the flights to America. "At the time of national emergencies," a decent yet not that competent number of people say under their breath, "we'll never allow the traitorous exodus to happen," vowing to frustrate their departure.


Images are also alive with collapsed buildings smoldering and of injured bodies crawling out. With shrill cries of kids tearing the air. With scared souls running to and fro, screaming. With bloods all over the metropolis. With amputees wailing for their cut-off limbs.


How have we come to discuss this miserable state of affairs? How shall we, half knowingly, have to pull ourselves into such horrendous situation in which commies from a Fascistic totalitarian state might be running amok? The culprit has been Kim Dae Jung who had talked the Korean people and the international community into believing that the Korean peninsula had been guaranteed of peace. The other way around.


Kim Jong Il should not and could not have been selected for a partner for peace negotiations. Or for North-South Summit Conference what you name it. Think of parallels of misfits: Neville Chamberlain to Adolf Hitler, Chang Kaishek to Mao Zedong, Henry Kissinger to Ho Chi Minh and finally Kim Dae Jung to Kim Jong Il.


Irony had been that greed of the two Kims coincided on the need for the Pyongyang Peace Show of June 15, 2000: the greed of Kim Dae Jung to grab Nobel Peace Prize and that of Kim Jong Il to grab the kickback for the covetous gift, totalling not less than 600 million U.S. dollars. They have been nothing less than impostors, both of them. The swindler Kim Dae Jung had deceived the Korean people, his allies in the U.S. and finally Nobel Peace Prize Committee of Norway.

Didn't You See Defectors scaling Walls?

Saturday, October 02, 2004
Didn't You See Defectors scaling Walls?
If you (the ruling leftist-leaning National Assemblymen of Korea) have the guts to say "No!" to Kim Jong Il and his bandits, please go ahead. Say something about the worst human rights condition the people of DPRK have been put into. If you don't, shut up at least. Do not blurt out "politically correct remarks", saying "North Korean Human Rights Act, which both Houses of the U,S. Congress have recently passed, might backfire."



Why backfire? Do you blind proponents of the dogma of false ideas think that the people of DPRK might denounce the U.S. for her interference with domestic affairs of the North Korean regime? Not a chance. Didn't you see defectors from the anachronistic totalitarian dictatorship scaling walls of foreign embassies stationed in Beijing?



A bizarre human condition exists that a specific political and social group has made its way into the power elites through incarcerations. Their hostility toward the political and social establishment is instinctive, taking on the characteristics of being vengeful.



They haven't tended to consider their enhanced status rewarded and reckoned. They haven't seemed to regard their member status of the ruling party a reward from constituents for their troubles and efforts for democratic developments in Korea (Republic of). Rather, they have tended to take on being spiteful. They are now attempting to avenge their past incarcerations.



The so-called "Liquidation of the Past History" is designed to reassess the legality of the activities of government agencies which had prosecuted and found them guilty. Mainly of National Security Law violations and violations of the law pertaining to assemblies and demonstrations. Almost all the activities of the ruling party (with the weird moniker of Open Uri Party) turn vengeful toward the current Opposition Hannara Party, appearing to aid the north in due process of deliberations and implementations.



Why don't they welcome the human rights act with open arms? Why hesitate at the time of the need for the show of resolute decisiveness? They are the conglomeration of self-contradictions, sending to the dictator in the North murky messages which might mislead him.