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Koreans convict Koreans for spying for Koreans

Koreans in southern Korean recently convicted five Koreans of spying. They received sentences ranging from four to nine years. One might have thought the reason was that one had U.S. citizenship and passed secrets to the U.S. Government. Actually, the espionage charges related to spying for northern Korea.(1)

In other words, the civil war in Korea is still on. Southern Korea still has its military run by the United $tates, as in the top command position. If battles with northern Korea break out before the new treaty goes into effect after 2010, the United States will be in command in southern Korea.

The charge of spying is supposed to be spying for another country. Yet the United States is still in charge in southern Korea, so the charge could really be headlined this way: "Americans convict American of spying for Koreans." The fact that it was a court in Seoul is a detail.

The convicted Koreans say that the real reason for the conviction was that the Korean lackey regime fears the worker party they belong to--the Democratic Labor Party. The trade union-related party has turned to politics, as all real proletarian struggles do.

The Korean national question has become a joke where Koreans convict Koreans for spying for Koreans. Despite being one of the world's few new-comers to rich status, despite the establishment of a strong educational system, southern Korea is twisted with many features of the lowest colonial mentality still.

Today's Koreans should draw the lessons of Iraq, not "Leave it to Beaver." Saddam Hussein was a u.$. lackey and there was no Soviet Union anymore when the united $tates invaded. In other words, there was not even a remote communism question in Iraq, but the United $tates still divided-and-conquered Iraq. No good came from that. Koreans are now serving Uncle $am to convict other Koreans. For that matter, the same Koreans are serving Uncle $am in Iraq as of February, 2007 according to Wikipedia.(2)

The service in Iraq is just another example of the role of colonial coercion in Korean thinking. Like most peoples in the world, the Korean people never supported the U.$. invasion of Iraq, but still their lackey regime felt obliged to comply with Bush's request.

In the United $tates in the 1950s, there was fervent anti-communism and the sending of troops to the Korean War. Koreans can take MIM's word for it--that communism was not and still is not popular inside U.$. borders. 1% support would be 3 million people. Communism's support inside U.$. borders is under 0.01%. In such circumstances, when Amerikans do not know any real communists, they can fantasize whatever they want about what it is-- and they do, as basically the monster under the bed.

In Korea the matter is different and cannot be handled the same way, because communism is more significant to Korean national history, but still southern Korea adopted a McCarthyite military-regime in the hopes of becoming Amerikkkanized. Anti-communism in Korea is Amerikkkan lackeyism. Communism is much more important to Koreans than to Amerikans. Attacking communism affects almost no Amerikans directly, but it does divide-and-conquer Koreans. Amerikans have been rich exploiters for so long, they cannot imagine anything concrete about communism; whereas, Koreans do not have to look back far to see exploited workers and peasants on the edge of survival.

MIM recently pointed out the views of Korean lackeys:

"To speak English fluently has been a long-held dream for almost all Koreans since national liberation in 1945. That's because English has proved to be one of the most effective tools to succeed in our society."(3)
We might add that it is a long-held dream of some Koreans to administer Koreans from Washington, DC, in which case the espionage convictions make more sense.

Note:
1. "Korean-American jailed for N. Korean spying," http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18131514/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_force_in_Iraq
3. Korea Times editorial gushing on the trade agreement with the United $tates http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engnews/20070409/910000000020070409075025E0.html