A. Totalitarianism in South Korea in Corona Era
Internationally, preparing for the post-Covid-19 era starts from clarifying the responsible party for the Covid-19 disaster. The Covid-19 pandemic proved that the information cover-up and clinging to one’s incumbent power by a totalitarian political group can instantly drive the entire world to a crisis. To prevent second and third global crises in a world where all nations are interconnected as a global community, clarifying the international responsibility of the totalitarian power is of utmost importance.
It is surprising that the South Korea, which has been recognized as a model country realizing liberal democracy, is now in the completion stage of totalitarianism. It is a scary fact that such rapid regime change has been proceeding while the global community was unaware of it. As a matter of fact, South Korea started as a bridgehead for preventing the spread of totalitarianism in East Asia. The bridgehead that was established 60 years ago even during the time when political climate was gloomy in all facets is now crumbling down altogether. The key reason is the political power that has held hands with the Chinese totalitarianism.
B. Massive Election Fraud in Korea in collaboration with China is a Process
In the April 15 general election of 2020, the ruling party that had won an overwhelming support of the people in their early votes ended up occupying 180 seats out of 300, where it is being revealed that it was a systematically corrupted election assisted by the China’s intervention. It is revealing that letters that do not conform to Korean grammar were printed in ballots and many crude and non-standard ballots were found during the counting process, which led to the reasoning that many printed ballots were transported from China. It was also argued that a Chinese programmer intervened in the communication process between the counting machine and the Central Election Commission’s server to manipulate the results of early-voting in general, and that traces of manipulation in the form of the Chinese Communist Party slogan are concealed in statistical numbers according to explanations by an incumbent lawmaker’s press conference. It is also suspicious that the Korean Election Commission has hired a number of Chinese as counting clerks. Actually the countries where rigged elections are happening are in an intimate relationship with China’s “One Belt, One Road” project, and, starting from the October, 2017 when China’s Communist Party’s Unification Front Business Department was expanded on a large scale, the cases of comments-postering team and rigged elections in foreign countries kept happening. In this vein, China’s organized intervention into other countries’ elections is awaiting international investigation.
C. Korea’s Election Rigging is an International Issue
Now the front-line evidences of the origin of the coronavirus and Korea’s corrupt election are being revealed one by one. From January 26 this year, the Korean Medical Association, the Infectious Disease Society, the Korean Society for Medical Infection Control, and the Korean Society for Antibacterial Therapy have raised a common voice of demanding the government that it is essential to take measures to ban Chinese citizens to cope with the coronavirus outbreak. Despite the explosive increase in the number of infected people at the time, the government’s response was that we should not block Chinese entry by making several excuses that ordinary people cannot understand at all. Weren’t there Chinese who passed through Korea and entered into America during this critical period and who affected national interest of the United States?
At this point, it is necessary to resolve any doubts about what kind of link the Corona 19 politics provided between the ROK-China powers, and how it was linked to the issue of illegal elections. In this situation, President Moon’s government is continuously pursuing Xi Jinping’s visit to Korea, reinforcing the irresponsible and dangerous diplomacy line of solidifying a common-destiny alliance with the totalitarian regime.
Not to mention multiple citizen groups, but also the 6000-member Professors’ Solidarity for Freedom and Justice issued statements several times designating Moon’s government as a totalitarianism and asking all pertinent state agencies to immediately come forward to perform a complete inspection and examination, as there were very specific and reasonable suspicions of a corrupt election. Ordinary students, office workers, housewives and even children gathered almost every day to rally against the government for the past 4 months in Korea. Their “black rallies,” all dressed in black and holding black umbrellas, signifies the death of the truth. An energy of political transformation, analogous to the Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Revolution,” is building up centered around the “Black Rallying” young generation. The Black Rally protesters are continuing their protest through rigged election material exhibition, bumper stickers, black masks, black manicure/pedicure, black tour bus parade, etc. and the movement is becoming nationwide. the Black Rallying voluntarily done by Korea’s freedom fighters to prevent the spread of the totalitarianism virus is setting a crucial example for the people of the world that has become the touchstone to establish the relationship and principles between the state and the citizens based on liberal democracy in the post-Covid-19 era.
The 415 election fraud in Korea is not an internal issue of Korea. It is an international issue. According to Prof. Walter Mebane of Michigan, 7.7% of entire votes were rigged. The election fraud ratio becomes 10% in terms of constituencies where the ruling party candidates won. This much scale of fraud is the highest 15% ratio among 400 election fraud cases, examined by Mebane so far. This large scale of election fraud will definitely affect Korea as a nation and a people. It is not a matter of individual Koreans. Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of the United Nation (ICCPR) stipulates the “fundamental right of self-determination” of every nation and people. By virtue of that right each nation and people has the human right to “freely determine their political status.”
D. Human Rights Violation is Serious!
Korean nation and Korean people have lost that right of self-determination due to 415 fraud. Now, super majority of the ruling party in Korean congress is rushing in enacting many socialistic legislations that control people’s lives and economy. The election rigging actually impedes the right of free determination of political status of Korea as liberal democracy.
Recently the Korean government has attributed the virus spread only to the religious groups and the protestors who raged anti-government rallies, scrutinized all the rally participants through tracing mobile phone communication records, and forced virus tests on them. There are quite a few incidents where those whose government-run coronavirus test results were positive but subsequent test results were negative when immediately retested at some credible private hospitals. These people’s identities are revealed by governmental agencies. Protecting rights of privacy and correspondence is at serious risk.
As the citizens’ peaceful protests called “Black Rallies” against the rigged election spread, the large-scale press agencies under the obvious influence of the government propagated the political scheme theory by abruptly buoying April 15 corrupt election related broadcasts, edited in malicious intent. Ordinary students, housewives, office workers, and professors are deliberately pictured as extreme-right wing conspirators. Is it not “unlawful attacks on the honor and reputation” of citizens of the UN member country? (against Article 17 of the UN Covenant.)
The participants in the Black Rallying have been holding protests for the past 4 month’s period in a very peaceful way. Now, the city government of Seoul prohibits any gathering of more than 9 people and some local governments make the limit to 5. Even car parade protests with more than 9 participating cars are prohibited in Seoul. This is almost a historical-joke violation of people’s right of holding peaceful assembly guaranteed under the UN treaty.
E. America is Next!
Without fighting back by world citizens including Korean and American citizens and international investigation including human right protection agencies on the April 15 election rigging of Korea before Korean and Chinese governments, National Election Commission, and postal offices destroy and manipulate the evidences, the “Election Fraud Virus” is destined to be here through South Korea.
America and the world, you are next!
Dr. Wonmog Choi
Professor of Law, Ewha Womans University at Seoul; Attorney-at-law (NY)
Co-President, Professors’ Solidarity for Freedom and Justice (PFJ), Korea
* PFJ is the non-political group of 6,300 full-time professors over 370 universities in Korea
