This essay reexamines the real nature of Kim Gu, celebrated as a “hero” in South Korea, through records of the brutal killing of Jōsuke Tsuchida.
It then connects that history to the politics of South Korea under Moon Jae-in, the country’s approach toward North Korea, and the urgent need for Japan to rebuild its security structure, asking what the true nature of the crisis on the Korean Peninsula really is.

2019-05-31
Jōsuke Tsuchida, who was tortured and killed by such a man, can hardly rest in peace.
It was a death of the utmost bitterness and injustice.
By now, Kim Gu must be suffering under the torments of King Enma in hell.
Or perhaps Mr. Tsuchida has already taken his revenge.

A chapter I posted on 2019-02-27 under the title, “Now that the structure of a South Korea being absorbed by North Korea is becoming clear, when we must urgently ask how Japan is to defend itself and hasten the rebuilding of Japan’s security structure,” is now in the real-time top ten.
The sections between asterisks below were added on 2019-02-27 to a chapter I originally posted on 2012-08-28 under the title, “Kim Gu… from Wikipedia.”

Yesterday, South Korea’s Moon Jae-in held a Cabinet meeting in this man’s memorial hall.
Except in wartime, presumably meaning the Korean War.
It was the first such meeting held outside a government building.
This is from the front page of this morning’s Sankei Shimbun.
Moon Jae-in is an extremely dangerous and malignant man for Japan and for the world.
Or rather, among all South Korean presidents, the very worst far-left activist, a devotee of North Korea’s Juche ideology, has become president of South Korea.
It would not be an exaggeration at all to say that in substance he is a North Korean agent.
To put it by analogy, it is as if activists of Zenkyōtō, Kakumaru, Chūkaku, and Minsei had seized control of a country and were playing at politics while imagining themselves revolutionaries.
That is the reality of South Korea today.
Now that the structure of a South Korea being absorbed by North Korea is becoming clear, at a time when the urgent question is how Japan is to defend itself and when the rebuilding of Japan’s security structure must be hastened.
At a time when it is urgent to revise the constitution forced upon Japan by GHQ, a constitution meant to weaken Japan permanently.
The opposition parties, which it would not be an exaggeration at all to say are under the influence of the Korean Peninsula and China, and newspapers such as Asahi Shimbun, which are of the same nature.
And especially NHK’s News Watch 9, in order to divert the people’s eyes from that reality, and because Abe is the greatest thorn in the side of China and the Korean Peninsula.
Which itself proves that Prime Minister Abe is a genuine statesman and the politician with the greatest influence in the free world.
In order to weaken that Abe-led Liberal Democratic Party by making it lose the House of Councillors election.
In other words, as true agents of China and the Korean Peninsula, in the words and deeds of traitors and enemies of the state.
The petty bureaucrats of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, said to be the most despised officials in Kasumigaseki, and needless to say the union members of Jichirō, in league with the opposition parties and one of the main forces waging the anti-base struggle in Okinawa.
One might well suspect an intention to throw national politics into confusion through sabotage worthy of communists.
By manipulating impressions so that such matters as irregularities in statistical work appear to be Japan’s urgent national issue, and by engaging in activities that are the very embodiment of a masochistic view of history, anti-Japanese ideology, treachery, and betrayal, serving China and the Korean Peninsula, that is what the opposition politicians, Asahi, Mainichi, Tokyo, Chunichi, NHK, and the rest are doing.
As for Okinawa’s two newspapers, there is no room for debate at all, because they are completely under the influence of China, the Korean Peninsula, or the Communist Party.

Now then, what follows is the chapter I posted on 2012-08-28.
As I followed the greatest library in history, the internet, along the parallel lines of related phenomena, which is one of its finest qualities, I came upon a name I had never heard before: Kim Gu.
He is said to be treated as a hero in South Korea.
I seriously worry whether a country called South Korea possesses any intelligence at all.

The following is from Wikipedia.

Kim Gu

…He served as chief of police, interior minister, acting prime minister, and head of state, prime minister, of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
From 1940 to 1947, he was its president.

1896. The Ch’iha-p’o incident.
      When he ordered a meal, he became enraged on seeing a female server give food to someone before him, and as punishment against Japan and the Japanese Empire, he killed Jōsuke Tsuchida, a Japanese who had absolutely nothing to do with the assassination of Queen Min.
      Kim Gu later described Tsuchida as a lieutenant in the Japanese Army, but the victim Tsuchida was in fact a merchant from Nagasaki Prefecture, employed by Kiichi Ōkubo as a trader.
      After the killing, Kim Gu stole valuables and fled, was captured, and sentenced to death as a robber and murderer.
      Later his sentence was reduced by special pardon, and still later he escaped from prison.

Jōsuke Tsuchida, who was tortured and killed by such a man, can hardly rest in peace.
It was a death of the utmost bitterness and injustice.
By now, Kim Gu must be suffering under the torments of King Enma in hell.
Or perhaps the one consolation is that Mr. Tsuchida has already taken his revenge.

“Record of the Interrogation Concerning the Murder of Jōsuke Tsuchida”

A commoner of Nagasaki Prefecture named Jōsuke Tsuchida, accompanied by one Korean, Lim Hak-gil, twenty years old, resident of Ryonggang in P’yŏngan Province, while traveling from Hwangju toward Chinnamp’o on his way back, hired a Korean boat at Hwangju Sibi-po and went down the Taedong River, staying the night of March 8 at Ch’iha-p’o, and after completing preparations to depart at about 3 a.m. on the following morning, the 9th, went to the inn of Yi Hwa-bo in order to take a meal. When returning once again to the boat, he was beaten to death in front of the courtyard of the inn by four or five Koreans lodging there.
—Asia Historical Records Center Reference Code: A04010024500, “Further Report from Acting Consular Officer Moriichi Hagiwara at the Incheon Consulate Concerning the Situation at Incheon Port”

The hired Korean, Lim, also faced the danger of being killed, but barely escaped and came to P’yŏngyang on the night of the 12th, where he reported the above events to Police Inspector Hirahara stationed there. The inspector led two policemen and five patrol officers to the scene on the 15th in order to conduct an inspection, but the innkeeper had fled upon hearing of their arrival, and since the body of the victim had already been thrown into the river, it was impossible to conduct an autopsy.
—Asia Historical Records Center Reference Code: A04010024500, “Further Report from Acting Consular Officer Moriichi Hagiwara at the Incheon Consulate Concerning the Situation at Incheon Port”

I slashed that Jap bastard, wenom, from head to toe in many places.
It was on a cold dawn in February, and on the frozen ground the blood flowed as if a spring had burst forth.
I scooped up that blood with my hand and drank it, and smeared that Jap’s blood upon my face…
—Kim Gu, Baekbeom Ilji, Japanese edition, Heibonsha (1973), p. 79