An essay criticizing Japanese media attacks on Prime Minister Abe during critical diplomatic moments, exposing ideological sabotage that damages Japan’s national interest amid global security threats.

2017-05-31
How appallingly bad Asahi Shimbun’s reporting has been over the past two weeks.
As I have repeatedly stated, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is now recognized worldwide as a rare statesman of exceptional caliber.
And yet, incredibly, there exist media organizations within Japan that not only refuse to acknowledge his value but persistently scheme to drive him out by any means necessary, no matter how vile or unethical.
While he was maintaining a punishing schedule and conducting diplomacy that looks down upon the entire globe, fulfilling what Japan—a country destined to lead the world alongside the United States for the next 170 years, a country in which “The Turntable of Civilization” is rotating—must do,
about two weeks ago Asahi Shimbun ran a front-page article about Moritomo Gakuen.
At that moment, I became convinced that Asahi Shimbun is nothing less than a traitorous newspaper company.
I continue to subscribe only for monitoring purposes, but I have come to loathe even glancing through its pages.
About a week later, it once again splashed across its front page an article attacking Prime Minister Abe with despicable intent, as though it were some kind of evil that one of his friends happened to be a school administrator.
Many readers possessing sound judgment must have concluded that Asahi Shimbun has lost its sanity.
What makes this even more egregious is that all of this occurred while Prime Minister Abe was exerting himself at the G7.
Even more problematic is the fact that the day the initial Moritomo Gakuen article appeared was the very day North Korea launched a missile.
At the time of the second school-related article, North Korea launched its second missile of that same week.
Lee Chisong, the foreign news desk editor at TV Asahi, was educated through high school at Chongryon schools.
What children are taught at Chongryon schools is effectively no different from the following facts.
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According to an article contributed to the online outlet “Chogabje.com” by Kim Sung-wook, who has systematically investigated South Korea’s left-wing movements, activists of “Jaju Tongil” to which Im Jong-seok belonged held a training camp in late August 1990 at the Hantan River in Gangwon Province, where they adopted the following resolution of loyalty to Kim Il-sung:
“Long live Great Leader Kim Il-sung, long live Leader Kim Jong-il, long live national liberation and people’s democracy. Under the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il-sung and our leader Secretary Kim Jong-il, we advance with the resolve and determination to fight until this life comes to an end.”
This is an excerpt from a truly authentic and serious article by Nishioka Tsutomu published in the July issue of the monthly magazine HANADA under the title “President Moon Jae-in: Korea’s Nightmare.” Im Jong-seok is a figure equivalent to Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary.
Who can say with certainty that there are no individuals similar to Lee Chisong within Asahi Shimbun or NHK’s news divisions?
To be continued.