June 12, 2008: Opposition political parties in South Korea are seeking to force the newly elected conservative government out of power via massive street demonstrations. The leftist opposition parties are using popular opposition to free trade (which actually favors South Korea more than it hurts), especially the importation of cheaper U.S. beef (said to contain mad-cow disease, although no South Korean has ever suffered from this via American meat products.) The leftists have controlled the educational system for decades, and have created a mythical new history for post-World War II history, in which North Korea is an innocent victim of U.S. imperialism (and it gets worse…) North Korea encourages this myth, just as East Germany worked with leftist political parties in West Germany during the Cold War to do the same thing. When the two Germanys were united in the early 1990s, the truth came out. |