Han Sang Ryol,
a patriot and peace activist, yearning for unity despite in bars
Last year, a prominent clergyman has been arrested after crossing back into his native South Korea from the North, long after his unauthorised visit and stay for two months, calling for reunification.
Han Sang-ryol's visit to the North, according to the South Korean government, was considered void, since its government, in a state of ceasefire with its Northern neighbor, prohibits unauthorised trips.
According to the news, the pro-reunification pastor was reportedly given a warm reception in the North. While on the south, he faced criticism much or rather say being assailed because of his pro-reunification acts that, according to them, may be contrary to their official stand regarding the North, the reunification policy, and other similar actions, all amid severely strained ties between the two Koreas.
Despite his imprisonment still he yearns for a just reunification, obviously, he thinks of Korea as one and has the right to visit the North and speak about peaceful reunification. But still, to the South, it is subversion and contrary to policies concerning reunification of the two Koreas-including the tendency of opposing Lee Myung Bak's governance, that according to the North as a treacherous and anti-reunification move.
And according to the Juche study group of Ireland:
"The South Korean regime is nothing more or less a Quisling regime. During the time of the norwegian nazi regime, communists and other anti-fascists where hunt down and murdered and that is what happens in South Korea today. When the german nazi regime falled, there was no way for the puppet regime in Norway to surive, like the South Korean, they didnt have support from the masses. Quisling got executed and that is what happens to traitors."
In the South, especially the conservatives, would think of it too negative about Han Sang Ryol's act of going to the North, speaking reunification and opposing moves what the conservatives supported. Or rather say, since Han Sang Ryol spoke of peaceful moves a la Kim Dae Jung, they wanted a hardline policy a la Dun Choo Hwan or Park Chung Hee-and that includes the use of weaponry "all in the name of reunification."
Worse, they would justify his imprisonment by saying that he, as well as other members of the opposition, gave speeches denouncing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak! Isn't it obvious for narrow minded conservatives, that despite speaking reunification, insists in theirs and opposing others all just to end the conflict?
Well...
Han Sang Ryol wanted reunification while the South may possibly wanted Colonization of the North the way former residents of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik think of after 1989.
