왜 한국에선 북한인권 및 핵문제가 작게 취급되는가?

1. 1980년대 이후의 민주화 운동에 북한정권의 가짜 민족주의 선동이 먹혀들어 북한을 동정하고 미국을 미워하는 여론이 형성되었다.

Why are the North Korean human rights issue and nuclear threat treated or dealt in such a small scale in South Korea?

Cho Gabje(Journalist, editor of chogabje.com)

1. Post 1980’ democratization movement was infiltrated by North Korean nationalism propaganda, and it focused to influence on South Korean public to sympathize the North as the weaker and to hate American as a bully state.

2. After graduating from colleges, core group of the left leaning generation of 1980s democratization movement moved themselves into politics, media, academic, labor, law practicing, NGOs, and became assemblyman, journalist, teacher, professor, judge, and activist. After that, they managed to start ideologically oriented organizations including those of pro-North Korea union and party. They generated public opinion and theory which strengthened the trend of pro-North and anti-US sentiment in South Korea.

3. Kim Dae Jung and Rho Moo Hyun winning presidential elections successively with full support of leftists, promoted their goal, pursued pro-North Korea policy which tried to diminish the threat from nuclear development and graveness of human rights abuse on the pretext of reconciliation and peace.

4. Lee Myung Bak and Park Gun Hye administrations lacked firm conviction and strategy which must be based on the anti-communist liberal democracy. They failed to weaken the pro-North Korea factions that are deeply trenched in many fields of South Korean society.

5. The structure of political opinion in South Korea can be summarized like this: the core pro-North Korean group 10%, sympathizer 20%, the core conservative 30%, and opportunistic middle 40%. The minority left is young and well organized while the majority right wing being old and disorganized.

6. Wealthy but coward South Korea is compared to fat and big pig while North Korea being lean and mean wolf. Too much reliance on America for South Korea’s national security made many Koreans irresponsible people even forgetting who are their enemies or friends. This kind of attitude produces even more irresponsible politician encouraged and supported by agitating mass media, creating vicious circle.

7. An effort to pass the North Korean human rights law in South Korean national assembly has been blocked for almost a decade. The people who oppose the law but advocate for abolishing South Korea’s national security law in order to cover up the crime against humanity of the tyrant in the North are like violating ‘the law against Holocaust denial’. They are called(or romanticized) as ‘progressive’ and ‘democratic fighter’ by left dominating media. Actually, they are nothing more than just fascist sympathizers.

8. North Korea's nuclear threat, human rights atrocity, and pro-North Korea faction in South Korea are grown from the same root, that is North Korean regime. So to prevail these three evils would be rather simple if we could find an ace in the hole to turn off the master switch of North Korean regime without blood shedding by mobilizing and combining the three forces of good that are consensus of public opinion worldwide, national policy of civilized countries, and information technology to infuse the truth into the North.