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.