Monday, December 6, 2010

Choson in near reprisal

Choson in near reprisal

by Lualhati Madlangwawa Guererro


Last time, we heard that South Korean troops, during its military exercises with the United States, fired its artillery shots over North Korean waters.This kind of action, as North Koreans sought, responded with an artillery barrage that resulted to two South Korean marines' deaths and an outbreak towards that said retaliator.

This retaliatory act, as North Koreans did, is justifiable since these two countries, with different forms and "contemporary cultures", are in a state of "cease fire", and having a "cease fire" meant having a "well secured stance, a defensive manner" so to say-from venting propaganda to retaliatory strikes "out of self defense".

Secondly, it is the task of a Korean to fulfill its struggle for reunification and liberation from American Imperialism and its Fascio-Capitalist stooges like Lee Myung-Bak. Like the former dictator Park Chung Hee, and Choon Doo-Hwan, Lee Myung-Bak boasts of reunification, of prosperity and freedom, yet like those of bullet-minded leaders, insist on hardline, hawkish policies against the North-all in the name of "National Security". The repressive acts laid by the Fascio-Capitalist South Korean government, are the unseen truths that still unshown much as the South usually shows its "modernity", its "alleged adherence to Democracy" but as expected-more focused on the former, as the South usually brags its technology to the world, like its gagetry, electronics and the like.

Speaking of those those things, there are even news that its workers, especially from Hyundai, staged a strike for fair wages-yet responded by beatings and imprisonment, how come Hyundai, a world class manufacturer of automobiles did so despite bragging to the world that their automobiles are world class? Isn't it obvious that the Fascio-Capitalist South Korean stooges, despite its modernity, of their so-called prosperity, remained incapable of doing something-to the extent of migrating in other Asian countries like the Philippines, aside from studying English?

And as we know that "Korea's prosperity" is supported much through economic aid laid by the United States and its allies? They may've spoke of self reliance and sufficiency, but it is the North that took the idea despite having accepted limited aid from China, but the ones from the south, obviously stooges of the west, tolerator of Capitalist tendencies got enough or much economic aid and bragging that they are prosperous, self sufficient-but for whom? The Korean people? Or for the benefit of the Korean Elite and Foreign Investors?

Between 1945 and 1964, US gave 12.000 million dollars as an "Aid" of which 3,600 million were laid for economic whilst the rest goes for the military. How about today? Despite its "prosperity", shown in media and its tangible goods such as Samsung or Hyundai, is the west, through its support, do so-of providing aid, greater than from 1945 to 1964?

How obvious that Choson is in a near state of resuming the 1950's conflict. And Kim Il-Sung (+) expected the outcome laid by the South as a US stooge: having a built-up of Comprador Capital first from handing over once Japanese Zaibatsu property, of US aid to the growing Chaebol gentry, trying to control the entire South Korean society. In 1965, 500 Comprador Capitalists, as Kim Il Sung stated, all out for about 40% of the South's manufacturing industries, 80% in mining, and more than 50% in foreign trade; that even today it may have been exceeded further all courtesy of trade agreements, foreign investments and aid, instead of a general economic plan that involves collective action and self reliance. The cellphone, automobile, cloth, and others are being shown much to the world in order to curry favor again and again with foreign investment, and not on Korean people in general. If they are really self reliant economically, and socially, as Samsung, Daewoo, and Hyundai shown to the world, how come US soldiers aren't evacuated and returned home from their bases? Of its people, especially the workers and the peasants gain control of the establishments from the Chaebol gentry?

It makes me say that the US kept on coddling the Reactionary South Korean government despite the South's capacity to get on its own. Despite the so-called improvement, they can't break free from the clutches of US imperialism as it obviously shown to the world. The Hoguk exercises and its alleged bombing of North Korean waters expresses its willingness to resume the conflict, supported by other Pseudo-Democratic nations like Noynoy Aquino's Philippines-sending a contingent of its own army!

Well...
Since the entire Choson is in a near state of chaos, it may also meant to be a chance to vent out struggle for Peace and Liberation. As Kim Il Sung stated:

"In order to end the present misfortunes of our people caused by the artificial division of our territory nd nation as soon as possible, liberate the people in South Korea and reunify our country, the government of the republic will firmly equip the people in the northern half of the republic both morally and materially to support the South Korean people in their sacred Anti-US struggle for National Liberation and to deal readily with the great Revolutionary event."

As of now these words would be "possible" despite the total venting of Anti-North Korean propaganda by the current Lee Myung-Bak regime. The continuous struggle of the Korean workers, the opposition against the G20 summit in Seoul and the presence of US soldiers, the continuous repression in the name of National Security would possibly be a catalyst for a greater resistance against the Fascio-Capitalist South Korean order.

The brutal "Anticommunist" acts, laid by the Japanese and further developed by the Americans, ex-Japanese lackeys and its allies, deeply rooted for years "In the name of National Security" further intensifies opposition and even resistance as they themselves ought to resume the conflict, like the last time's firing of artillery that resulted to North Korea's counterfiring of its artillery over the south, a reprisal. The vilification of the North, courtesy of the South hids the fact that the South actually started it!

After all,
Regardless of the number of casualties, it is the will of the Koreans to intensify the revoulution. The repressive policies, the firing salvos made by the South during the Hoguk exercises with the US, and other acts may also serves as a start- a possible resumption, of a sea of blood in the land of the morning calm.