One important lesson that the free world must learn from the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis is that China, or more accurately the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), cannot be trusted. What is being increasingly revealed is that Communist China has covered-up, mis(dis)informed and outright lied about the virus from the beginning, and that the rest of the world was made vulnerable to the regime’s extensive “sharp power” campaign.
This lethal occasion should serve as a chilling reminder to the free world, that the enemies of freedom continue to “spy on our freedom to infiltrate our ranks and make us slaves again.” (Galatians 2:4) In the last 100 years or so since Marxism became the latest destroyer of liberty, its revolutionary ideologues have never ceased to patiently, but persistently “march through the institutions” to “cut the roots” of our civilization, and overthrow our long-held values from within.
Most recently, their efforts have been largely successful in South Korea. North Korea’s version of Marxism-Leninism, or Juche ideology (a.k.a. Kimilsungism. Juche roughly means “autonomy,” but its ideology has evolved to mean “Korean ethnocentric socialism embodied in the bloodline of Kim Il-sung.”) has infiltrated the ranks of every possible sphere of South Korean society from school classrooms to government branches for the last four decades, and it has borne much fruit in the last four years. Many participants in the effort may not even realize that they are serving the interests of the enemy, because they are sold juche-in-disguise as “Korean nationalism.” Quite conveniently, “nationalism” in Korea means mostly ethnic nationalism, not creedal or civic nationalism.
The people’s revolution of 2016-2017, or the so-called “candlelight revolution,” had successfully overthrown a legitimate government of the Republic of Korea and undermined the very foundation of the constitutional democratic republic, giving birth to the current far-left Moon, Jae-in regime which shamelessly calls itself “the candlelight government” and whose inter-Korean and foreign policies are virtually indistinguishable from that of the North Korean Kim, Jong-un regime.
Most observers outside Korea will find it far-fetched and even outrageous that the country of Samsung, K-POP and Gangnam Style would be bordering on socialism. Of all people, South Koreans would be more vigilant against the creeping enemy of freedom. After all, they are perhaps the greatest beneficiaries of individual freedom and its gifts of prosperity in contemporary history, and they are too close to the greatest example of a colossal failure of socialism to neglect the value of freedom.
But as President Reagan warned, freedom was indeed no more than a generation away from extinction. As their parents busied themselves in securing economic growth, the pro-juche Korean left targeted their overindulged children and young students to hijack the 1980s’ anti-authoritarian democratic movement, and successfully turned it into a nationalist fervor fused with socialism. History tells us that youths, nationalism and socialism are a powerfully toxic combination. (Remember nationalsozialist?)
Freedom is on the verge of collapse in South Korea, and that is no figure of speech or mere rhetoric. Too many Alger Hisses have already reached the top ranks of its government while there are too few Whittaker Chamberses to blow the whistle. South Koreans must learn from the American conservatives of 1950s to “stand athwart history, yelling stop.”
