Written Testimony Submitted for the “The State of Religious Freedom Around the Globe” Hearing, Tuesday, July 13, 2021 – the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

JunKwangHoon_TLHRC_WrittenStatement_0.pdf (house.gov)

The State of Religious Freedom Around the Globe | Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (house.gov)

Honorable Co-Chairmen James P. McGovern and Christopher H. Smith, and distinguished Members  of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the United States Congress: 

I am Reverend Jun Kwang-hoon, the chairman of the Christian Council of Korea (CCK). The  Republic of Korea is a country established with the help of missionaries sent from the United States.  The first missionaries, Underwood and Appenzeller, came to Korea and awoke a sleeping nation by  building churches, schools, and hospitals, leading the independence movement, invited our founding  president, Syngman Rhee, to America to receive a doctorate from George Washington University,  Harvard, and Princeton, which helped with establishing the Republic of Korea with liberal  democracy, market economy, the ROK-US alliance, and introducing Christianity. 

47,000 American soldiers were killed during the Korean War while fighting against communism, the  US did not impose taxes during our economic development, and helped the Republic of Korea  uphold democracy, making it one of the world’s top 10 economic powers. 

With help from the US in establishing the Republic of Korea, it has prevented communism from  infiltrating Northeast Asia after World War II, and as a result, it has become the first nation that used  to be a feudal state of China to completely democratize and industrialize. 

Now the Republic of Korea has the opportunity to repay the help it received from the United States  and the international community, but the Jusapa (pro-North Korea, leftist) government of President  Moon Jae-in is trying to deconstruct the Republic of Korea and separate it from the maritime free  alliance with the United States, Japan and the international community created by President Syngman  Rhee and is attempting to create a continental communist alliance with North Korea, China, and  Russia. In response to this, 300,000 pastors and patriotic citizens representing 12 million Christians  of Korea have gathered at the Gwanghwamun Plaza in downtown Seoul this past year and carried out  a national resistance against Moon Jae-in’s criminal activity. 

Moon Jae-in, who was on the brink of a crisis, allowed the coronavirus from China to enter and  carried out a fraudulent election on April 15, 2020, and even now, under the guise of the coronavirus,  he suppresses the people of free democracy and has imprisoned myself, and others such as Governor  Kim Kyung-jae, and CEO Kim Soo-yeol, who has led patriotic rallies. While the leftist politicians in  South Korea, led by the Moon administration, allowed leftist union members to march without any  interference from the government, or allowed other businesses and organizations to gather, my  church and our rallies have been unfairly targeted by this administration.  

The Moon Jae-in administration, which calls itself the “candlelight revolution” administration and  disguises itself as representing the will of the people, has continuously violated the human rights of  the citizens of the Republic of Korea based on pro-North Korea ideas. This can be seen in the cases 

of repatriation of North Korean defectors and the passing of the anti-leaflet law banning North  Korean defectors and activists from sending information into North Korea.  

The Moon administration requested its first arrest warrant against me on December 24, 2019, citing  the protest held on October 3, 2019. More than a million people gathered in Gwanghwamun, central  Seoul, on October 3 to protest the tyranny of the Moon administration. Even though a historically  large crowd gathered, the rally was remarkably peaceful. However, the Moon administration  attempted to arrest me under the pretext of minor bruises to police officers and damage to goods. 

My words and actions are not punishable in South Korea, which is a free democratic country where  freedom of speech is guaranteed as a fundamental right of the people. However, the Moon  administration repeatedly investigated, arrested, and indicted me. This is because they felt threatened  due to my leading and holding large rallies and claiming that the administration follows Juche, or  North Korean self-reliance ideology, and denies the free democratic system stated in the South  Korean Constitution and obeys North Korean communism. 

Honorable Members of Congress, the United States of America has helped in our independence,  founding of our nation, economic development, and democratization, and if you can help us once  more by preventing the criminal acts of Moon Jae-in, the Republic of Korea will contribute greatly to  the international order led by the US. 

Please do not be deceived by the lies of the Moon administration and fully understand the true nature  of his government, to prevent the Republic of Korea from being constitutionalized by North Korean  communism. 

There is no administration that lasts forever. Someday, there will surely be a judgment on the tyranny  of this regime. And the tip of the sword they are wielding will eventually be pointed to their neck.  

We, the patriotic South Korean citizens, and Christians in our nation, will let the world know the  truth about the religious freedom violations, political oppression, and the abuse of human rights of  this case involving myself, and wish to fight with the conscientious forces of the world. We hope that  everyone in the free world will join us, and we earnestly appeal that the US Congress will also join  us in our fight.  

Thank you.

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