2019/11/1
The following introduces the monthly magazine Seiron, released today, and a special feature that corrects South Korea’s “history of lies.”
As readers know, I have repeatedly stated that South Korea is a totalitarian state that has perpetuated Nazism in the form of anti-Japanese education for 74 years after the war.
The South Korean lawyer Kim Ki-soo has published an essay titled “A Nation of False Collective Memory,” which proves that my view was entirely correct.
It is an essay that must be read not only by Japanese citizens but also by people throughout the world, and it presents facts that must be known.
The ruling by South Korea’s Supreme Court concerning wartime Korean workers, issued on October 30 of the previous year, ordered the payment of 100 million won [approximately 10 million yen] to each plaintiff.
The ruling holds that the 1965 Japan–South Korea Claims Agreement does not cover compensation for former workers.
This ruling will spread the perception throughout the international community that South Korea is not a country where legal certainty and property rights are guaranteed, and it can be said to have brought disastrous consequences upon South Korea.
The principle that agreements between states must be honored is fundamental to international law, and this Supreme Court ruling can be said to present numerous problems.
Such a ruling was issued because the whole of South Korean society is trapped in a false “collective memory.”
A statue of a former wartime worker was first erected in front of the heavily used Yongsan Station in the capital, Seoul.
This year, another such statue was nearly erected in front of the Consulate General of Japan in Busan, but the city of Busan prevented it, stating that it was “legally problematic.”
In the first place, placing controversial objects in front of foreign diplomatic missions is prohibited by the Vienna Convention, to which South Korea is also a party.
Later, a statue was erected in a park in central Daejeon, South Korea, without following legal procedures.
Moreover, I was shocked that the mayor of Daejeon attended the unveiling ceremony.
I am currently involved in a campaign against the bronze statue of the former worker and have filed a criminal complaint against a public official associated with the mayor of Daejeon for violating the legislation governing municipal parks.
I oppose the installation of the worker statue not because it depicts an actual “conscripted worker,” but because it represents a memory different from reality.
Looking at the worker statue in front of Yongsan Station brings to mind hunger, forced mobilization, slave labor, and concentration camps.
Such representations, which contradict historical facts, are political artifacts installed without following legal procedures.
Yet it can be said that South Koreans who pass in front of the statue are forced to form false memories every day.
I want to protect “the right of South Koreans not to have memories imposed upon them.”
If left unchecked, a memory different from reality will be implanted in this statue, giving rise to a power that crowds with falsified memories will worship.
I consider a society in which people cannot form their own memories and have memories imposed upon them by the state or the nation to be a totalitarian society.
A society in which every city is filled with political artifacts is a dictatorial society and a totalitarian state.
That is precisely why many South Koreans now oppose the installation of bronze statues.
This article continues.