One-year-old of misrule 

With Lee Myung-bak’s one year old of rule, the struggle against him is swelling across south Korea.

The front against Lee consisting of the civic organizations from different strata, politicians and the opposition parties are being formed in south Korea. Various kinds of demonstrations and rallies against the treacherous acts of Lee Myung-bak are waged in south Korea.

The ninety-seven percent voters moved a vote of nonconfidence in Lee Myung-bak. In actuality, the public sentiment put Lee to death.

In retrospect, his one-year-old rule left disgusting trace as the ringleader of deteriorating the public welfare, a devilish homicide and war maniac. He, after took the office, introduced attractive commitments to revive the struggling economy and development of the people’s livelihood.

However, his advertisements such as the restoration of economy and the development of the people’s livelihood proved ineffective.

According to a data, the income differential between the wealthy class and the lowest class reached to 14.5 times that compared with 5.7 times in 1997. The needy class amplified 19 percent from 11 percent compared with the same period. Sixty-seven percent of the middle class are in state of being reduced to the needy class at any time.

There are homeless seven million households in south Korea and 680, 000 households live in dugout. There are the homeless wandering about in streets and there are more than 3, 000 homeless in Seoul alone.

The annual university expenses jumped to 20 percent that compared with 2007. 1.2 million children in the needy class have no schooling and work for daily.

It was his deceptive trick that he put his attention to alleviate pains of the south Koreans caused by the economic crisis in the last year of his office.

In addition, the Lee regime has trampled down the democracy in south Korea to revive the past fascist dictatorship, running counter to trend of the times and will of the south Koreans.

The Lee regime, as soon as it took power, overrides successes gained through the bloody struggle of the south Koreans and revives the fascist dictatorship in south Korea, crying about the “lost decade”. The Lee clique amplified the repressive mechanism to suppress the progressive bodies and people who struggle for national reconciliation, unity and independent reunification by invoking the evil law, the National Security Law.

It ruthlessly quells the struggle of the south Koreans’ for the right to existence and arrests the leading figures of the Solidarity for Implementing the South-North Joint Declaration and the south Korean Solidarity for Progress, branding them as the pro-north Korean leftist forces.

It is a clear manifestation of the past dictatorship that the south Koreans’ righteous struggle for independence, democracy and reunification are being trampled down.

In particular, the inter-Korean relations are in a state of collapse owing to confrontation policy of the Lee regime.

Lee Myung-bak has resorted military confrontation to invade north Korea in league with the foreign forces, advocating the preemptive strike against north Korea and pursuing the wild ambition of unification under liberal democracy.

The warlike force of south Korea massively reinforces the troops on the Military Demarcation Line to go a war against north Korea, uttering they would back “the idea of the high command” of Lee Myung-bak. They unhesitatingly say to make full preparations for the possible third West Sea skirmish and “punishment of north Korea.”

The inter-Korean ties are in the worst crisis owing to the Lee regime’s confrontational policy against north Korea and the Korean Peninsula is in a state of war at any time.

The restoration of economy and people’s livelihood would meet failure and a way may break out in the Korean Peninsula as long as the Lee regime, which pursues the confrontational policy against north Korea remains in power.

The current situation requests the south Korean revolutionaries to turn out in the struggle against Lee Myung-bak.

It is imperative to form a front against Lee Myung-bak consisting of broad segments of the south Koreans.

There are pro-reunification organizations struggling for the implementation of the June 15 Joint Declaration and democracy and progressive civic bodies including the South Headquarters of the National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification, the south Korean Federation of University Students Councils, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the Reunification Solidarity in south Korea. Should these organizations get united, the power of it is inexhaustible.

The revolutionaries should actively wage the work to unite the political parties and organizations struggling for progress, reform and reunification, transcending the differences of ideas and party affiliation.

The struggle against Lee Myung-bak is not the struggle only for the sake of certain organizations and classes. It is the nationwide struggle to defend the existence and destiny of the south Koreans.

The organization and revolutionaries should enlighten the anti-national and anti-popular nature of Lee Myung-bak and arouse them to the struggle.

To this end, frequencies of information activities should be launched intensively by applying lawful means of demonstrations, rallies and Internet.

Lee’s murderous and anti-popular character should be exposed in connection with Yongsan tragedy.

It is an important demand to wage the struggle into a higher stage by consolidating the organizations and the foundation of the popular masses.

The struggle of broad segment should overcome dispersibility of the struggle and they should be united to demonstrate great influence.

As the historic experience proved, a sporadic and struggle with leadership are doomed to failure.

The front against Lee Myung-bak should be formed by cementing the ranks and amplifying the force.