The US is the wirepuller of the impeachment situation in south Korea

 

The US was behind the scene of the “impeachment against the president” in south Korea on March 12, which was branded as a “national humiliation day” and “black Friday”.

It was a bloodless political coup masterminded by the US behind the scene.

The legal inauguration of the “participatory government” supported by the anti-US independence forces for the first time in south Korea through the 16^th presidential election in 2002, made the US feel intense fear.

So it took the impeachment as the last resort.

To this end, it worked hard, as the first step, to harass and stifle the “participatory government” until the latter goes away on its own accord.

The US had the south Korean conservative opposition parties slander the “government”, confuse the political situation, introduce an independent counsel to probe the slush funds collected by the Roh’s camp and aids during the last presidential election campaign.

It forced Lee Hui-chang, ex-chief of the Grand National Party, to declare that he would go to jail assuming responsibility for all wrongdoings of the GNP, so Roh Moo-hyun should step down like him.

On the other hand, the US invited Roh to America to impose a direct pressure on him and let the Moody’s Investors Service, the world credit rating agency, to devaluate the credit rating of south Korea by two grades.

Hardly pressed by this, Roh said that he could not assume the presidency and he would like to make an appeal to the confidence once again.

As the second step, the US stirred up public opinion on the impeachment in a bid to put it into practice in full scale.

 Under the manipulation of the US, Hong Sa-duk, assemblyman from the GNP, began to make remarks on “emergent measure” and “important measure” since last summer, and at the same time Cho Gap-je, editor in chief of “Wolgan Joson”, an ultra-rightist conservative magazine, openly talked about the impeachment against Roh calling for the unity of the GNP, the outdated Millennium Democratic Party and the United Liberal Democrats. He also said that Chough Soon-hyung, chairman of the MDP, would be the presidential candidate after the impeachment.   

And the ex-chairman of the GNP, Choe Byong-yul, raised clamor for an “acting presidentship” after the passage of the impeachment bill at the parliament.

Hubbard, US ambassador to south Korea, gave detailed instructions to Park Sang-cheon, the then chief of the MDP, on the impeachment against Roh, last October, and met with Choe Byong-yul, on February 3 this year under the pretext of discussing the issues of additional troop dispatch to Iraq and the relocation of the US troops in south Korea.

The third step was to enforce the impeachment.

The US instigated the opposition parties to take decisive impeachment action taking the issue of Roh’s speech in support of the Uri Party, made at a press conference on the occasion of the first anniversary of his presidency.

So the opposition parties in collusion began the all-out “impeachment” drive according the US script.

Especially after the passage of the impeachment bill at the parliament, the US directly commanded the process, being reported on the impeachment situation in detail.

On March 13, it sent its Secretary of Homeland Security to south Korea to meet Prime Minister Koh Gun, who would take the presidentship, as a first foreign envoy, in a token of formal recognition of the impeachment-ridden situation.

And it mobilized its conservative institutes such as the Heritage International Economics Institute and the International Monetary Institute to praise that it was the first case to impeach the president in a democratic way according to the constitutional procedure, it proved that south Korea was a strong democracy like the US, and the impeachment against the president showed that the parliament had also power.

The US media continuously instigated the south Korean rightist conservatives to the impeachment drive holding that the impeachment situation was a “confrontation of pro-Roh camp versus anti-Roh camp” and an ideological showdown.

It also backed the impeachment with armed forces by more frantically staging the south Korea-US joint military drills “Foal Eagle” and the RSOI in south Korea, and announcing the deployment of the up-to-date “Aegis” destroyer in the East Sea of Korea.

Facts are enough to indicate with no doubt that the US was the wirepuller of the recent presidential impeachment in south Korea.

The NDFSK and the south Korean people will always remain vigilant to the moves of the US and the conservative forces of this land and never tolerate their plots.