How Dictatorships Failed to Be Installed in the Pro-US Far East

The South Korean president’s attempt to overthrow democracy on December 3 was not an improvised or isolated act. It must be assessed in relation to the brawl that took place in the Taiwanese parliament in May, and especially to the appointment in Japan of a militaristic and Holocaust-denying prime minister. As in Ukraine and Israel, those nostalgic for the Second World War attempted a coup.

On August 21, 2024, South Korean parliamentarian Kim Min-seok, chairman of the center-left Democratic Party, announced that members of the government were preparing to impose martial law. Given that this man had a winding political career and had been convicted of corruption, the public interpreted his alleged revelations as a way to create buzz. As a result, he was labeled a “conspiracy theorist” while his friends lamented that he had fallen so low.On August 21, 2024, South Korean parliamentarian Kim Min-seok, chairman of the center-left Democratic Party, announced that members of the government were preparing to impose martial law. Given that this man had a winding political career and had been convicted of corruption, the public interpreted his alleged revelations as a way to create buzz. As a result, he was labeled a “conspiracy theorist” while his friends lamented that he had fallen so low.

More than three months in advance, Kim Min-seok reveals that the President of the Republic is preparing for martial law.

The accusation was indeed a bit much. Democracy only appeared in South Korea in 1980, after the Gwangju massacre, during which thousands of people were murdered by the dictatorship over nine days. So talking about “martial law” brought back terrible memories.

Yet, on December 3, around 10 p.m., all audio-visual media were warned that President Yoon Suk Yeol was going to make an exceptional address to the nation. At 10:25 p.m., all radio and television channels broadcast his speech live. He assured that the opposition was working with the North Korean communists. At the fourth minute, he declared: “Dear citizens, I declare martial law to protect the Republic of Korea from the communist threats of North Korea and the pro-North anti-state factions undermining our freedom and constitutional order.”

According to Kim Min-seok, the plot was hatched by four military personnel, former students of the Chungam Higher Education School: the President of the Republic, Yoon Suk Yeol; the head of his personal guard promoted in August to Minister of Defense, General Kim Yong-hyun; Lee Sang-min, Minister of the Interior; and Yeo-hyung, director of counterintelligence. Finally, students of the 11th class of the Korean Military Academy are said to have formed a second circle of the plot.

Martial law was implemented by General Kim Yong-hyun (Defense Minister) as commander of the 38th Army; General Park Ann-soo (Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) as commander of the 46th Army; General Kwak Jong-geun (Head of Special Forces) as commander of the 47th Army; and finally General Lee Jin-woo (Military Governor of the Capital) as commander of the 48th Army. The martial forces mobilized were the 707th Special Forces Brigade, the 1st Airborne Special Forces Brigade, and the military police under the leadership of the Special Forces.

South Koreans immediately understood that this was the return of dictatorship. They stormed nighttime shops and online stores to stock up on food supplies.

At 11 p.m., National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik summoned lawmakers without delay, declaring on social media, “All members of the National Assembly must immediately convene in the plenary hall.” The constitution gives the assembly the power to repeal martial law. But already, Special Forces had stormed the building and closed its doors, while a general ban on political activities, including demonstrations and political party activities, had been issued. Simultaneously, another Special Forces unit stormed the offices of the Election Commission, seizing staffers’ cellphones and sealing off the exits.

As a crowd gathered outside the parliament, MPs scaled the gates to repeal martial law. Around 1am, 190 out of 300 MPs voted unanimously to repeal martial law. The Special Forces left the building. However, it was not until 4:20am that the government met at night and lifted the law. The dictatorship had lasted only six hours.

Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party and the main opposition figure, scales the wall surrounding the parliament building. The lawyer was the victim of a serious assassination attempt on January 2. The video of the sick old man defying Special Forces to vote to repeal martial law was viewed 2.38 million times during the evening.

To understand what happened in Seoul, it is important to remember that President Yoon Suk Yeol is not only a former prosecutor who fought against corruption, but also a nostalgic for Japanese imperial militarism. In late November, he did not support his ambassador in Tokyo when the latter celebrated, alone, the memory of Korean slaves exploited during the Second World War by Mitsubishi in the gold and silver mines of Sado Island  [ 1 ] .

We must then draw a parallel with the events that occurred last May in Taiwan. During the inauguration of the new President of the Republic, Lai Ching-te, the Legislative Yuan (Parliament) tried to amend the Constitution in order to prevent at home what has just happened in South Korea. But the eight deputies of the presidential party blocked this by physically attacking their colleagues, injuring five.

This is because Lai Ching-te was not elected for his foreign policy commitments, but for his economic views  [ 2 ] . He too is nostalgic for the Second World War: while the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek’s party, officially campaigns for the reunification of China, he wants to resume the civil war. He represents the tiny fraction of Taiwanese who still reject the victory of Mao Zedong (1893-1976). At his inauguration, he declared: “I hope that China will face the reality of [Taiwan’s] existence [and] respect the choices of the people of Taiwan. Faced with the many threats and attempts at infiltration from China, we must demonstrate our determination to
defend our nation”; a position that violates the agreement on the unity of China.

Taiwanese intelligence still shelters the highly secretive “World Anti-Communist League”  [ 3 ] , renamed in 1990 “World League for Freedom and Democracy”, created during the Cold War by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the leader of the Ukrainian integral nationalists Yaroslav Stetsko (former Nazi Prime Minister). It is now chaired by a former general secretary of the Kuomintang, Tseng Yung-chuan, and still financed by the National Security Bureau. The Asian league is chaired by the diplomat Zeng Yongquan, former general secretary of the Taiwanese government.

No one knows how this system works today. However, a corner of the veil was lifted when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in July 2022. Despite attempts to cover up the scandal, the Japanese press leaked that he had been killed by a ruined man who accused him of having received astronomical sums from the Unification Church (known as the “Moon sect”). Six months later, it emerged that a group of Liberal Democratic Party parliamentarians had received more than half a billion dollars in bribes  [ 4 ] .

The majority of Liberal Democrat parliamentarians come from hereditary dynasties. They are organized by factions, not by programs. This party was created by the United States in the aftermath of World War II to recycle war criminals who had not been tried by the Tokyo Tribunal. It has governed Japan for 67 years (with the exception of two short periods of no more than 4 years in total).

Since October 1, Shigeru Ishiba has been Prime Minister of Japan. He is a fanatical militarist  [ 5 ] . He has revised historical works dealing with the Yasukuni Shrine, the resting place of Japan’s major war criminals. He has reconciled the honor of these militarists with the history of China and Korea. He seems never to have visited this controversial shrine. He is a gunji otaku , that is, a collector of military memorabilia, and himself a militarist, although careful not to insult his foreign interlocutors. According to him, the last war was fought for the “just cause” of liberating Asia from white domination, and most of the war crimes reported in China, South Korea, and Southeast Asia are “plots to denigrate Japan.” Furthermore, he said that the government and military of the time should be held strictly responsible for starting an unwinnable war.

We are therefore facing a return of the Far Eastern faction of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.

We did nothing when the integral nationalists returned to power in Ukraine. Today we have a war in their country.
We did nothing when the revisionist Zionists returned to power in Israel. Today we have a war in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Will we react to the return of the Japanese militarists to power in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan?

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