Lee Myung-bak’s junkets to US and Japan under fire

Lee Myung-bak’s recent junkets to the US and Japan were humiliating sycophantic and treacherous ones. He sold off the dignity and interests of the nation and made south Korea increasingly dependent upon the US. They were, at the same time, shameful junkets as he cried out for confrontation with the DPRK and war against it, zealously supporting the US in its anti-DPRK racket and moves to invade it and disgraceful visits as he behaved despicably as a colonial stooge, bringing shame to the nation.

During his visit to the US Lee talked about the “three principles of the south Korea-US alliance” and asked his American master to observe them. While visiting Japan, he sought the triangular military alliance, vociferating about “tightened relations” among the US, Japan and south Korea.

The facts prove that traitor Lee’s recent visits were extremely dangerous ones during which he committed himself to increase south Korea’s political and military dependence upon the US and undertake a more important duty in carrying out the US world strategy. In the economic fields, too, Lee, when addressing a “briefing on investment,” called for massively introducing US monopoly capital into south Korea and begged for an early ratification of FTA in a bid to leave all the south Korean markets to the tender mercy of his American master.

During the trips Lee was increasingly assertive that north Korea should dismantle its nukes first and was so impudent as to meddle in the DPRK-US nuclear negotiations, clamoring for a thorough declaration and verification.

What is more intolerable is that he touted the extremely provocative watchword of “no nukes, opening and 3000 dollars” which had been rebuffed by the nation for being unrealistic and unreasonable, begging his masters to support it. This is another intolerable provocation to the DPRK.

The brazen-faced diplomacy conducted by Lee is to justify the watchword by enlisting support from his masters and intensify his anti-DPRK smear campaign by pushing forward it under the signboard of “policy toward north Korea.”

Lee proposed to set up the “north-south liaison office,” a leftover of the era of the Cold War confrontation.

This is nothing but a ridiculous farce intended to escape bitter criticism of the anti-north confrontation policy at home and abroad, shirk the responsibility for having bedeviled the inter-Korean ties and pretend to be interested in dialogue.

It is preposterous that during his recent junkets Lee talked about “threat from north Korea.”

He talked nonsense that both the south and the north should change. This was nothing but a revelation of his ulterior intention to deny the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and bring the inter-Korean ties back to the era of confrontation as it was aimed at dampening the desire for alliance with the north and reunification growing strong in south Korea, fostering pro-Americanism and bitterness towards the north and reducing all Koreans to playthings of outsiders.

Lee’s recent visits were humiliating as they brought to light the true colors of the stooge disgustingly kowtowing to his US and Japanese masters, after discarding even a shred of national souls and dignity.

During his junkets to the two countries Lee promise to offer everything to his American and Japanese masters, kowtowing to and pleasing them to the disgust of everyone, but he gained nothing but the ill-fame of being a meritorious subject to the US and Japan.

Lee’s recent visits saliently revealed that the “pragmatic diplomacy” much touted by him is nothing but diplomacy for treachery and national ruin as it is aimed at making the nation a scapegoat of forforces  and realizing his dirty political ambition.

The outcome of Lee’s trips to the US and Japan presage the ordeals and catastrophe which south Korea and the inter-Korean relations have to encounter.

The Korean nation will never pardon Lee’s acts of treachery but will take thorough stock of them.

Lee will be held fully accountable for the serious consequences to be entailed by his thrice-cursed acts of treachery and will not be able to escape a stern judgment of the nation.