Drawing on Professor Lee Sang-chul’s analysis, this essay explains how intelligence operations function through remarkably simple mechanisms. It argues that Japan’s vulnerability stems from institutional capture of civic groups, unions, and opinion leaders.
2017-04-05
Intelligence operations succeed not through complexity but through repetition and institutional capture.
By embedding narratives within civic groups, unions, and professional elites, influence becomes normalized and opposition is stigmatized.
The case examined here shows that what appears sophisticated is often merely persistent.
Recognizing this simplicity is the first step toward restoring sovereignty over public discourse.

2017-04-05
Yesterday, I introduced excerpts from an article by 李相哲, published in the April 1 issue of the monthly magazine 正論.
His analysis proved that my long-standing assertion—that Japan has become a country uniquely vulnerable to espionage—was precisely correct.
I have been the first to inform the world that the reporting style of TV Asahi’s flagship program reveals hostility toward Japan, that Asahi Shimbun’s editorials—especially its leading editorials—harbor animosity toward Japan, and that this hostility is most clearly exposed in the behavior of the writers of the “Soryushi” column.
It should have been obvious to discerning observers that the actions of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which repeatedly travels to the United Nations to provoke defamatory human-rights recommendations against Japan while leading anti-nuclear and anti–security treaty movements, also reflect hostility toward the nation.
Today’s Sankei Shimbun front-page feature offered a striking corroboration, becoming the first article to expose the federation’s past activities and conduct in detail.
It revealed facts that all Japanese citizens and people around the world—especially members of UN human-rights bodies—should know, even if such facts fall on deaf ears due to manipulation by China and South Korea.
These realities demonstrate that intelligence operations are, in fact, astonishingly simple in their execution.
The following is an excerpt from Professor Lee Sang-chul’s article titled “The Park Administration Tried to Crush Pro–North Forces,” published in the April 1 issue of Seiron.
The Park administration regarded the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, comprising more than 2,000 labor unions, as a political organization rather than a labor group.
It praised North Korea’s nuclear weapons as defenses of socialism against the United States and described missile tests as satellite technology, reflecting a strong anti-American and pro–North Korean orientation.
Organizations claiming to defend workers’ rights were taken over by pro–North activist circles, supported behind the scenes by North Korean agents masquerading as ordinary citizens.
Even more shocking was the penetration of the National Assembly by figures resembling intelligence operatives who supported these civic groups.
Lee Seok-ki, a proportional representative arrested shortly after the Park administration took office, was charged with organizing an underground revolutionary group based on Juche ideology and plotting the destruction of key national infrastructure and loss of life in coordination with North Korea.
Testimony by 黄長燁, who defected in 1997, stated that 50,000 North Korean agents were operating covertly within South Korea.
As exemplified by Lee Seok-ki, pro–North forces have now penetrated even the legislature.
These activists hijack civic groups, draw in well-meaning citizens, and manipulate organizations to destabilize governments repeatedly.
They are supported by intellectuals, cultural figures, and some legal professionals who feel indebted to North Korea and wield enormous influence over public opinion.
Who could claim that this chapter does not describe Japan’s reality?
It would be more accurate to say that it describes Japan’s reality itself.